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Originally Posted by Harrier
Would you mind sharing with us the corporations who are benefiting financially from this program?
This has existed for years - you don't just pay $100 - and get a pass. An extensive background check is conducted and all criteria must be met to be eligible. The $100 fee is used to fund the background checks. Frequent flyers and people with medical equipment(such as pacemakers) are the people who opt to do this because they fly often and the expense and convenience is worth the probing into their life.
Just post the list of those "greedy corporations" when you come up with some names...
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Oh, then I guess they will do a 'background' check on the 3 year old boy too.
As for the corporations profiting, here -
"More than 21,000 contracts have been awarded since the agency was created.
Among the companies that have benefited from multimillion-dollar contracts since the TSA was founded in 2001 are
Unisys (Stock Quote: UIS),
Siemens (Stock Quote: SI),
Lockheed Martin (Stock Quote: LMT),
L-3 Communications (Stock Quote: LLL),
Accenture (Stock Quote: ACN),
Deloitte & Touche,
General Electric (Stock Quote: GE),
Northrop Grumman (Stock Quote: NOC),
BearingPoint and
IBM (Stock Quote: IBM).
Reviewing the 13 highest-value of these contracts, the auditors found the agency "did not provide adequate management and oversight of acquisitions for support services for transportation security programs."
An infamous example of the TSA wasting money via private contracts was the failed attempt to implement bomb-detecting "puffer machines."
The devices were supposed to use a blast of air on travelers to dislodge and analyze particles that might indicate the possession or handling of explosives.
In 2004, the TSA loaded up on $30 million of the machines, buying 207 from General Electric and Smiths Detection.
One catch: they didn't work. Prone to dust-related malfunctions and false readings due to high humidity and the presence of jet fuel, the machines were discarded and are now collecting dust in storage facilities.
5 Big Winners From TSA Security Rules - MainStreet
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