Head of TSA reassigned after tests reveal flaws
Washington
THE US Department of Homeland Security reassigned the acting director of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and ordered the agency to revise its security procedures after screeners at airport checkpoints failed to detect weapons and other prohibited items 95 per cent of the time in a covert test.
Jeh Johnson, the secretary of Homeland Security, which oversees the TSA, said on Monday that he took the findings of the investigation by the department's inspector general "very seriously".
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