Thursday, July 28, 2011
Now here is something that will cost money to fix
There are thousands of holders of FAA certifications as airmen and mechanics whose real identity can not be verified. This number includes 27 just added and deemed a threat to the US.
The Transportation Security Administration cannot determine the real identity of thousands of the people to whom the Federal Aviation Administration has issued licenses as pilots and aircraft mechanics, but has located an additional 27 who should not have held them because of terrorist connections, according to an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security.And now, thanks to the union busting zeal of the Republican/Teabaggers, the Dept Of Fatherland Security are the only ones working on this problem. And if the FAA ever gets back to work on this, you can bet they won't have the budget to improve their record. Gotta love those Republican/Teabaggers, making America safer since, oh I don't know, how about the 12th of Never.
The report was requested two years ago by four members of the Senate, after a private data analysis company in New York determined that the man convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 still held an F.A.A. license, as did a man caught trying to smuggle military equipment to Hezbollah in Lebanon, a man convicted of trying to manufacture an airborne poison in his basement and a self-described "eco-terrorist" who fled the country after he was indicted on a charge of arson.
The F.A.A. and the Department of Homeland Security were supposed to scour the list of licensed pilots, mechanics and flight dispatchers for terrorists under a law approved by Congress after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but they have shown great difficulty in doing the work, despite having access to far more information than the private company.
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