We already suspected, but now we have some confirmation from the people who’s job it is to breach our security. Airport security has inconvenienced us for no apparent gains in security.
The covert testers who were at DIA are part of the TSA’s Red Team. The Red Team was formed by the Federal Aviation Administration after terrorists blew up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people.
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“There’s very little substance to security,” said former Red Team leader Bogdan Dzakovic. “It literally is all window dressing that we’re doing. It’s big theater on TV and when you go to the airport. It’s just security theater.”
Dzakovic was a Red Team leader from 1995 until September 11, 2001. After the terrorist attacks, Dzakovic became a federally protected whistleblower and alleged that thousands of people died needlessly. He testified before the 9/11 Commission and the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the US that the Red Team “breached security with ridiculous ease up to 90 percent of the time,” and said the FAA “knew how vulnerable aviation security was.”
Dzakovic, who is currently a TSA inspector, said security is no better today.
“It’s worse now. The terrorists can pretty much do what they want when they want to do it,” he said.
I’m not saying that we should be secure. What I’m saying and what I believe others agree with, is that the things that are done in the name of security are more about making people think something is being done than actually getting things done.
And on that final note:
Dzakovic, who testified that the FAA ordered the Red Team to “not write up our findings,” said the TSA is also trying to hide its results.
“The last thing TSA wants to do is look bad in front of congress and in front of the public, so rather than fix the problem, they’d rather just keep them quiet,” said Dzakovic.
Ouch.
(H/T to
Schneier for the link)
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