O'Hare security breach--3,807 missing employee security badges

[TexasLawyer]

Jun 25, 2007 10:54 pm US/Central

Fly At Your Own Risk: More Security Breaches Found
CBS 2 Investigation Into O'Hare Security Continues To Force Action, But More Problems Uncovered

Dave Savini
Reporting

(CBS) CHICAGO “Fly At Your Own Risk” is a CBS 2 continuing
undercover investigation at O’Hare Airport, and it just got even
more alarming. 2 Investigator Dave Savini reports on exclusive details.


Officials at O'Hare International Airport are refusing to interview with CBS 2 about our latest findings. The 2 Investigators have found more security breaches and a failure by authorities to investigate.

O'Hare is one of the busiest airports in the nation, and may be one of the most vulnerable. The 2 Investigators have learned that 47 more employee access badges are missing, bringing the total we've discovered to 3,807 – the biggest security failure involving access badges ever to be exposed.

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Airport employees are allowed to go through a back gate. All they have to do is show their access badge. They are not searched. "It's really scary just thinking that anyone can go into secure areas of O’Hare,” <Marcia> Pinkston said.

The latest missing badges belong to employees of Mesa Airlines, which operates flights for United Express. One of them belonged to Pinkston, who worked as a flight attendant. She says she was fired for complaining about security. She says the airline never asked her to return her access badge and for months she could have used it to gain access to airplanes. "Just anybody can go in there,” she said.

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http://cbs2chicago.com/homepage/local_story_176224625.html

[krispos42]

1. Glad I fly out of Minneapolis

And direct, too.

Oy vey.

[TexasLawyer]

2. Heck of a job!

I'd feel a lot better if airport employees were searched just as mercilessly as passengers were.

It is easy to swipe/duplicate a badge-- and probably not all that hard to become a legitimate airport/ airline employee with a real badge.

[Javaman]

3. Is there anymore doubt as to why HLS was established?

it's for morons* retarded friends who couldn't find jobs.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. And the repuke fanatics constantly laud the simply

wonderful job * has done protecting us. Starting with the anthrax, progressing through the myriad of breaches at places like Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore, to who knows how many unreported violations (see dick cheney's shredder) that remain hidden, they sure are doing a "heckuva" job. :mad:

[emilyg]

5. Gee - makes me feel so safe.