TSA Incompetence May Make Thanksgiving Travel Even Worse Than Usual

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Recent efforts by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to cut down on security loopholes have had an all too predictable result: even longer wait times.

New TSA Administrator David Pekoske admitted that travelers should expect “slightly increased wait times” as it is currently phasing in new security measures around electronic devices, Politico reported Wednesday. Pekoske has introduced the new security protocol following an audit of the TSA in 2015; he argued that the security failures arose due to “disproportionate emphasis on efficiency over effectiveness.”

“There was a lot of pressure, we thought, on the checkpoint agents to keep people moving,” he said. “We also found that we didn’t have as consistent and coordinated of a training system as I would have liked to have seen.”

Thanksgiving week is already the busiest travel time of the year, and Pekoske said those traveling on Sunday should expect to see the worst of the worst this year.

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