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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) approved flight training for 25 illegal aliens at a Boston-area flight school that was owned by yet another illegal alien, according to the Government Accountability Office.
The illegal-alien flight-school attendees included eight who had entered the country illegally and 17 who had overstayed their allowed period of admission into the United States, according to an audit by the GAO.
Six of the illegal aliens were actually able to get pilot’s licenses.
Discovery of the trouble at the flight school began when local police--not federal authorities--pulled over the owner of the school on a traffic violation and were able to determine that he was an illegal alien.
Stephen Lord, who is the GAO's director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues, testified about the matter Wednesday in Rogers' subcommittee. Rogers asked him: "Isn't it true that, based on your report, the Transportation Security Administration cannot assure the American people that foreign terrorists are not in this country learning how to fly airplanes, yes or no?"
Lord responded: "At this time, no."
Although the illegal alien who owned the Massachusetts flight school had not undergone a required TSA security threat assessment and had not been approved for flight training by the agency, he nonetheless held two Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) pilot licenses, also known as FAA certificates.
The GAO report, released today, is entitled General Aviation Security: TSA’s Process for Ensuring Foreign Flight Students Do Not Pose a Security Risk Has Weaknesses.
But according to the GAO, the Transportation Security Administration has failed to keep its database of these background checks up to date.
By cross-referencing the Federal Aviation Administration's database of registered pilots with similar information kept by the TSA's Alien Flight Student Program, the GAO found that some of about 25,000 foreign nationals registered with the FAA were missing from the transportation agency's database, the GAO's Stephen Lord told the committee.
Moreover, the Alien Flight Student Program does not determine whether these individuals are in the country illegally, Lord said.
When Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., asked at the hearing Wednesday whether an individual who was unable to board a commercial plane because he posed a threat to U.S. security could begin to learn to fly that same plane, officials from the GAO and the TSA said yes.
Lawmakers at the hearing told the TSA it needed to fix its vetting system.
"We cannot allow loopholes exploited by the 9-11 hijackers to be exploited again," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
Read more here: www.star-telegram.com...=cpy
Originally posted by FractalChaos13242017
There's nothing to this... c'mon, it was all a mistake. They were caught, right? You can go the 9/11 false flag route... I'm going, mexican cartel training for transportation of drugs.
Considering 'Fast and Furious'... lol
Is there mention of common nationality amongst these illegal aliens? Ooops, now I'm racist
edit on 18-7-2012 by FractalChaos13242017 because: additional question
But according to the GAO, the Transportation Security Administration has failed to keep its database of these background checks up to date.
By cross-referencing the Federal Aviation Administration's database of registered pilots with similar information kept by the TSA's Alien Flight Student Program, the GAO found that some of about 25,000 foreign nationals registered with the FAA were missing from the transportation agency's database, the GAO's Stephen Lord told the committee.
Moreover, the Alien Flight Student Program does not determine whether these individuals are in the country illegally, Lord said.
When Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., asked at the hearing Wednesday whether an individual who was unable to board a commercial plane because he posed a threat to U.S. security could begin to learn to fly that same plane, officials from the GAO and the TSA said yes.
Lawmakers at the hearing told the TSA it needed to fix its vetting system.
"We cannot allow loopholes exploited by the 9-11 hijackers to be exploited again," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
Read more here: www.star-telegram.com...=cpy
edit on 18-7-2012 by FractalChaos13242017 because: additional comment
Originally posted by Bixxi3
Since 9/11 gov agencies have had a 100% success rate(only other 100% success rate the gov has is the IRS taxing poor people.) in stopping terrorists attacks.
Anything that gets uncovered like this is on purpose. Its all part of a plan we won't be able to fully figure out until it is to late.
edit on 18-7-2012 by Bixxi3 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Bixxi3
Since 9/11 gov agencies have had a 100% success rate(only other 100% success rate the gov has is the IRS taxing poor people.) in stopping terrorists attacks.
Anything that gets uncovered like this is on purpose. Its all part of a plan we won't be able to fully figure out until it is to late.
edit on 18-7-2012 by Bixxi3 because: (no reason given)
The GAO found that, “From January 2006 through September 2011, 25,599 foreign nationals had applied for FAA airman certificates, indicating they had completed flight training.” That information is placed on the FAA airmen registry.
The GAO provided information from the FAA’s airmen registry to TSA “so that the agency could conduct a matching process to determine whether the foreign nationals in the FAA airmen registry were in TSA’s AFSP database and the extent to which they had been successfully vetted through the AFSP database.”
The GAO found that not everyone in the FAA registry had been vetted properly.
I'm going, mexican cartel training for transportation of drugs.
Considering 'Fast and Furious'... lol
Is there mention of common nationality amongst these illegal aliens? Ooops, now I'm racist
Since 9/11 gov agencies have had a 100% success rate(only other 100% success rate the gov has is the IRS taxing poor people.) in stopping terrorists attacks.