“The Transportation Security Administration [TSA] has suffered more than 25,000 security breaches in U.S. airports in the past ten years, House subcommittee on National Security chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said today [July 13, 2011]. Chaffetz made the comments during the opening of a hearing on the TSA and Airport Security. Of the 25,000 breaches, more than 14,000 people were able to access sensitive areas of the airport and some 6,000 passengers and carry-on luggage were able to make it past government checkpoints without proper scrutiny. ‘[And] these are just the ones we know about,’ Chaffetz said. …In a statement to ABC News, the TSA said the 25,000 breaches ‘represent a tiny fraction of one percent’ of the billions of passengers screened at the nation’s airports since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. ‘Airports today are safer than ever before,’ the statement said.”
– Lee Ferran, “25,000 Airport Security Breaches Since 2001: Congress,” ABC News, July 13, 2011