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TSA Denies Tipping Airport Screeners to Tests

Nicole Gaouette writes in The Los Angeles Times:

Bush administration officials vehemently denied today that airport screeners have been tipped about covert security tests even as lawmakers brandished an e-mail from Transportation Security Administration officials that not only warned employees of testing, but described the methods and appearance of those conducting the probes.

"There was no intent to tip off, there was no cheating," insisted TSA chief Kip Hawley, who said that TSA officials sent the e-mail not to tip off screeners, but because they thought the tests might really be an Al Qaeda operation.

Democratic lawmakers were openly incredulous of Hawley's contention.

posted by Fergie @ 11/14/2007 04:36:00 PM