Gs4 Security: Tsa Clearance

Sunday, 9 December 2012

Tsa Clearance

The requirement is intended to ensure that supervisors and screeners who could have direct contact with terror threats are authorized to receive classified information.But some Newark employees have questioned the cost-effectiveness of conducting costly background checks in order to grant a relatively high"secret"level of clearance to mid- and even low-level employees."Essentially,we’re screening passengers and baggage,"said one TSA employee in Newark,who requested anonymity because employees there have been told not to talk to reporters."Does that really make it necessary to have secret clearance?"TSA employees had to submit equally extensive background information when first applying for their jobs,though not for the purpose of being granted security clearance.Since then,employees say foreclosures,