TSA Administrator Michael Restovich Gets Caught Cheating on Bomb Test

The Transportation Security Administration promotes its programs to ensure security by using undercover operatives to test its airport screeners. In one instance, however, the agency thwarted such a test by alerting screeners across the country that it was under way, even providing descriptions of the undercover agents.

The government routinely runs covert tests at airports to ensure that security measures are sufficient to stop a terrorist from bringing something dangerous onto an airplane. Alerting screeners to an undercover officer's timing and appearance would defeat the purpose.

But that's exactly what happened on April 28, 2006, according to an e-mail from a top TSA official who oversees security operations.

In an e-mail to more than a dozen recipients, including airport security staff, the TSA official warned that "several airport authorities and airport police departments have recently received informal notice" of security testing being carried out by the Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration.

The e-mail from Mike Restovich, assistant administrator of TSA's Office of Security Operations, relayed an alert that described a couple who were testing security. The woman is white but has "an oriental woman's picture" on her identification card, it stated. "They will print a boarding pass from a flight, change the date, get through security (if not noticed) and try to board a flight and place a bag in the overhead."

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[GThomason]

That's OK. Pretty soon they'll all be out of a job. And any NEW security companies at airports should be BARRED from hiring them. FIRST, NAPOLITANO and Piloter have to be FIRED! They've created a POLICE STATE in the country, and it MUST be stopped before they're man-handling people on every street corner in America. Their purpose is to de-sensitize people from ever encroaching abuse throughout this country by these MORONS. The TSA should be sued for EXTORTION for the $11,000 fine.

[mrtruthify]

"There's a reason you separate military & the police. 1 fights the enemies of the state, the other serves & protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people"

Bill Adama

"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active & ardent, & will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men." Voltaire

[AdamsSeed]

Cool! Can we let the airports handle their own security now??

[jarenzo]

What?!? you mean to tell me that employees of a government agency are ignorant as to their hired function! Even more shocking a government agency not following protocol?!? GASP! OH NO! Let's create more jobs! WOO! SPEND SPEND SPEND SPEND SPEND SPEND (thumbs up if you think i need some lov'n)

[calsunspotg]

TSA is a JOKE!! They need to follow how the Isreali's conduct business and do NOT force everyone to take the shoes off like TSA does... TSA is just a job center that our government made to give our military jobs when they complete their obligation to or government and yes there is alott of favortism at TSA, thats not good!! It's a security threat!!

[TheBelldiver]

I've seen the stupidest things at airports. security removing a guys flip flops while I pass with boots on.  My diving gear is 4 bags of tools lol that's a joke to see them go over it. They don't have a clue what they are looking at.

[quest1931]

Tipped off by a black man (Not Bennie) to protect the black TSA jobs??

[angstotheclown]

The government reports that 70% of the time the TSA FAILS to find guns, explosive materials and potential bomb materials. Hire low IQ imbeciles and you get that kind of performance. Everyone is fearful about this nation becoming a soviet police state. Why worry? They are all stupid and easily dealt with. I can't wait for the government to try to shut down the country. It will be a "festival of ignorance" as one dude said when referring to Fox News. It will be hilarious as they fumble around.

[CARE2DOTCOM]

@votingronpaul2008

you appear quite wise.. I really like your mind.. you understand something most do not.. unalienable rights are only ours through the creator, whatever that is to a each man. That is common law, leberties are permissible rights you have permission to use. No man has rights under the constitution, no man was a party to it.. It wa a scam from the beginning to replace our unaliable god given rights with liberties, which youonly have permission to use & thus can be taken away.

[votingronpaul2008]

@mrtruthify I admire and trust our men and women in uniform to meet their obligation.

A recent TSA directive seeks to declare TSA dissenters as suspects. But rest assured that there are no boundaries to how our military patriots may bring domestic enemies to justice... only the imperitive to do so.

[votingronpaul2008]

@mrtruthify There are 40 active Generals serving, not counting National Guard and Reserve, and thousands of officers at all levels honor bound and sworn to hold, even the President to account.

Upon taking the dire and important responsibilites of their current job, these faithful Americans have pledged an oath to enforce and defend the views held by the public and MANY other rights endowed by our Creator.

[methyou]

I used to give the entry test for TSA screeners. TSA has a policy of hiring unskilled, uneducated morons. They didn't stop the shoe bomber or the underwear bomber, now they make people take off their shoes and submit to full body screening. (NEWS FLASH - IT'S TOO LATE, YOU ALREADY FAILED TO STOP THOSE THREATS!)

You CANNOT protect against terrorism by responding to threats AFTER you failed to stop them. Disband the TSA and form an agency of INTELLIGENT, TRAINED security PROFESSIONALS.