Tally of airport security breaches since 2001 raises alarms

Coincidence this happened after DHS repeases the report?

Cops: Naked man swimming in water near NY airport

Authorities say a man was found swimming naked in a waterway next to the fuel farm of New York’s Kennedy Airport.

A spokesman for the airport’s operator, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, says airport patrols spotted the swimmer Tuesday morning.

The spokesman, Steven Coleman, says the man ran toward the fuel farm when the patrols approached. He was caught near a boat dock and never entered the restricted area.

The man was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation. He has been charged with cCoincidence this happens right after DHS releases their report??

riminal trespass, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

Perimeter security plans are the airports’ responsibility, but they’re approved by the Transportation Security Administration.

ABOLISH THE TSA!

By Gary Stoller
USA TODAY

More than 25,000 security breaches — an average of about seven per day — have occurred at U.S. airports since November 2001, according to newly released Department of Homeland Security documents.
More than 14,000 were people entering “limited-access” areas by going through airport doors or passageways without permission, or unauthorized people going from airport buildings to planes, according to the documents to be presented at a House subcommittee hearing Wednesday.
The documents, obtained in advance by USA TODAY, don’t provide details about the security breaches or whether any could have led to potential attacks on planes or passengers.

Security consultant Raffi Ron will testify Wednesday that the TSA has spent billions of dollars to screen passengers and bags and relegated other aspects of security “to the back seat,” according to written testimony submitted to the House subcommittee.
“As it stands today, the vast majority of commercial airports in this country … do not have the capabilities to detect and prevent an intruder from entering the air side of the airport through the fence or an adjacent waterfront,” says Ron, a former security director at Tel Aviv Ben-Gurion International Airport.
The House subcommittee says it does not have a breakdown by year when the security breaches occurred, but former Federal Aviation Administration security director Billie Vincent says 25,000 security breaches indicates a problem.
“We’re open to penetration if someone decides to penetrate,” he says.

Vincent, who praises the TSA for compiling security-breach numbers, says that very few perimeters at airports worldwide are secure except those in Tel Aviv and Tokyo.
Chaffetz has no praise for TSA.
“It’s absolutely stunning that the vulnerabilities are so wide,” Chaffetz says. “There’s not much to suggest that airports are more secure than years ago. We’ve just been lucky.”
Besides the security-breach data provided to the subcommittee, a Government Accountability Office report released Tuesday reveals other concerns about airport security and TSA oversight.