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Remember Farid Seif? Mr. Seif is the Houston Iranian-American businessman who mistakenly carried a Glock handgun through securit
Remember Farid Seif? Mr. Seif is the Houston Iranian-American businessman who mistakenly carried a Glock handgun through securit
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2013-09-04
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Remember Farid Seif? Mr. Seif is the Houston Iranian-American businessman who mistakenly carried a Glock handgun through security, onto a plane, all the way from Houston to Indianapolis. When he got to his destination and realized his mistake, he alerted security officials. There was reportedly "nothing else" in Mr. Seif’s carry-on besides the weapon. Yet the security screeners at George Bush International, America’s eighth-busiest airport, missed it entirely. The scariest part of that story was that Transportation Security Administration officials told reporters that this type of incident was "not uncommon."
Now another Texas airport, Dallas-Fort Worth, is proving the point. This week, a high-level TSA source told the local NBC affiliate that "An undercover TSA agent was able to get through security at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with a handgun during testing of the enhanced-imaging body scanners."
The TSA insider who blew the whistle on the test also said that none of the TSA agents who failed to spot the gun on the scanned image were disciplined. The source said the agents continue to work the body scanners today.
This is not confidence-inspiring. If TSA screeners can’t even stop guns getting through security, why are they taking away our bottled water? Incidents like this only lend incentives to TSA critics who say the whole airport security apparatus is an enormous waste of time and money. The TSA’s attitude towards the reporting of these sorts of messes isn’t helpful, either. They only provided the NBC with a brief statement claiming that they don’t reveal the results of secret testing for "security reasons" and arguing that "advanced imaging technology is an effective tool to detect both metallic and nonmetallic items hidden on passengers." That’s pretty much the public affairs equivalent of sticking their fingers in their ears and saying "lalalalala we can’t hear you!"
It is really hard to have an accountable TSA without greater transparency about the results of secret testing. Instead of leaking hints to the press that failure rates have decreased since the last public reports, the TSA should back up its whispering with actual data. If it won’t, some enterprising congressional committee should order it. "Trust us that this works" just isn’t cutting it anymore.
What happened at Dallas-Fort Worth______.
选项
A、helped rebuild public confidence
B、was merely an unusual accident
C、caused greater concern over security
D、resulted in unexpected disorder
答案
C
解析
第二段介绍了在Dallas-Fort Worth发生的又一起安检事件,同样也是携带手枪而没有被机场的安检设备检测到。第四段第一句说再次出现这样的事情确实不能给人带来信心。意思是人们会更加担心机场安检的可靠性。
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