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TSA Wants 2,000 More ID Checkers

Michael Hampton writes on Homeland Stupidity:

The Transportation Security Administration wants to hire 1,300 people, and divert 700 more from actual airport screening duties, to look for fake IDs.

Pitching the idea before Congress on Tuesday, TSA head Kip Hawley asked for $60 million in new funding for fiscal 2008, to pay these screeners to do nothing but check identification against boarding passes and detect fake IDs.

And you’ll never guess who’s been trying to get through airport security with fake IDs. I’ll give you a hint: it isn’t the terrorists.

posted by Fergie @ 2/15/2007 05:31:00 PM