TSA Tried To Hide $184 Million Of Non-Used Equipment From Lawmakers


The Transportation Security Administration put $184 million worth of unused screening equipment into storage and then attempted to hide the huge taxpayer funded mistake from House Republican investigators according to a report released on Thursday.

According to House investigators the TSA “provided inaccurate, incomplete, and potentially misleading information .?.?. to conceal the agency’s mismanagement of warehouse operations.”

The report comes at a time when TSA opponent, Rep. John L. Mica (R-Fla.) has said the TSA is wasting money on equipment that is never fully tested and often doesn’t live up to expectations. In other cases Mica claims the speed of deployment for TSA endorsed equipment is often too slow.

The full report was delivered on Wednesday during a joint hearing of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. In the report staff investigators revealed that the TSA was slow to supply an inventory list for its warehouse equipment in question and then stalled efforts to visit the site, allegedly so they could dispose of nearly 1,300 pieces of screening equipment which had never been used.According to one committee staff member who spoke with the Washington Post under the condition of anonymity:

“When our guys went down there, the manager told them they’d been trying to move stuff out so we wouldn’t see it.”

Even after TSA staffers tried to hide the equipment the inventory check still revealed 5,700 pieces of equipment, more than 100 pieces over what the committee had received in an inventory report from the TSA.

Investigators tell Congress that the false inventory reports should be considered a breach of the law.

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