Washington, DC
Even with the inconvenience of airport screening U.
S. travelers still face the risk of bombs making it onto U. S. airlines.
19 U. S. airports security checkpoints breached by investigators. TSA employees miss bomb parts. Liquid explosives and other bomb making materials were smuggled past Department of Homeland Security TSA checkpoints at the nation's airports.
Government Accountability Office (GAO) report...
Bomb making materials costing less that $150 were purchased and carried past airport security screening in luggage or on persons the GAO report said.
Quoted from the report...
"Our tests clearly demonstrate that a terrorist group, using publicly available information and few resources, could cause severe damage and threaten the safety of passengers by bringing prohibited'' bomb components "through security checkpoints,''