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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets regarding airport passenger-screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation, the agency confirmed Tuesday. The 93-page TSA operating manual details procedures for screening passengers and checked baggage, and it reveals technical settings used by X-ray machines and explosives detectors. It also includes pictures of ID cards used by members of Congress, CIA employees and federal air marshals. TSA officials said the manual was posted online in a redacted form on a federal procurement Web site, but the digital redactions were inadequate. They allowed computer users to highlight and copy blacked-out passages and paste them into a new document or an e-mail. Stewart Baker, a former assistant secretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said the manual will become a textbook for those seeking to penetrate aviation sec
The Transportation Security Administration has some major explaining to do as secret information is discovered on the Internet. Expect the TSA to get grilled on Capital Hill today after super secret information showed up on the Internet. It’s such a breach that the former Inspector of Homeland Security is calling it “gold in the hands of terrorists.” The TSA posted it’s most sensitive screening secrets on line for anyone to see. The 93 page document had the words sensitive security information stamped across the top with some words and statements blacked out. But on-line viewers were able to remove the black areas and reveal information like what size electrical wire can go undetected by airport screening machines and what items those at security can choose not to check: wheelchairs, casts, and footwear of the disabled. All of this is being called an appalling breach of security. “It’s particularly galling because we’ve spent the bulk of our money and attention since 9/11 on the aviati
