NJ Pols Speak Out Against TSA Probe

WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010

New York, NY —

New Jersey elected officials are speaking out against a decision by the federal Transportation Security Administration to open an investigation into how the Newark Star Ledger obtained a report that showed that this month at Newark Liberty International screeners missed 90 percent of the contraband items that TSA quality control monitors tried to get by them.

Assembly woman Joan Quigley, who chairs the Assembly's Homeland Security Panel, called on the Federal agency to focus on the problems with screening and not on ferreting out potential whistleblowers within the Federal agency.

TSA has not yet returned calls for comment.

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