A new day, a new scandal for the TSA

[ScottM]

A federal Transportation Security Administration employee has been arrested in connection with the molestation of a girl, Orange County sheriff's deputies said. The man told investigators he planned to make her his "sex slave," according to the arrest report uncovered by Local 6.According to jail records, Charles Henry Bennett, 57, works as a TSA employee at Orlando International Airport, and was booked into the Orange County Jail early Friday morning after a 15-year-old girl came forward claiming Bennett touched her inappropriately when she was 12, deputies said.

A TSA spokesperson reached late Saturday night said it would not be possible for her reveal whether Bennett’s employment status with the agency was impacted by his arrest until Monday at the earliest.

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/22391933/detail.html

Classy people they hire at the TSA.

 

[wsuffa]

Saw that, posted it in another thread.... commented that this kind of TSA screener will be running the virtual strip search machine (might as well call it the "perv box"...)

 

[steingar]

While I hate the TSA with practically every fiber of my being, I have to say that an organization that large will have a few bad apples just through mass action. Such behavior has cropped up among LEOs and clergy, I fail to see why TSA personnel should be immune. If there was some sort of notice in his background the TSA recruitment process should undergo some review.

 

[fgcason]

While I hate the TSA with practically every fiber of my being, I have to say that an organization that large will have a few bad apples just through mass action. Such behavior has cropped up among LEOs and clergy, I fail to see why TSA personnel should be immune. If there was some sort of notice in his background the TSA recruitment process should undergo some review.

Just out of curiosity, when the tsa took over from all the private security companies, did they just move all those people into the tsa or did they fire every single last one of them and start their own hiring sequence with much higher standards? IOW, did they keep the mcdonalds rejects and borderline/actual criminal types or not? (yes there were some good ones however there are plenty of shady characters too)

 

[rotorhead1026]

I saw many of the same faces at the changeover, plus some new ones (TSA = "thousands standing around"). The vetting process was very secretive, though, IIRC.