Poor coordination at the Transportation Security Administration undermined the agency’s ability to detect threats among its own employees, a government watchdog says.
The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general on Monday highlighted a series of management decisions that led to “friction” between TSA’s investigative team and its Insider Threat Section, which is part of the Federal Air Marshal Service and the agency’s law enforcement team.
The report’s findings cast a negative light on TSA’s ability to root out internal threats and provide fresh ammunition to conservative critics who’ve called for dismantling the agency and privatizing transportation security.
“We found that ...