Homeland Security Red Teams conducted covert tests at “dozens” of the nation’s busiest airports. They were able to get mock explosives or banned weapons through TSA security checkpoints a whopping 95% of the time. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson reassigned Melvin Carraway, the Acting Administrator for the Transportation Security Administration, to work in the Office of State and Local Law Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters. In one case, an undercover agent was stopped after the fake explosive device taped to his back set off an alarm; during the pat down, however, the TSA screener missed the fake bomb.”]

