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USA: General Accountability Office (GAO) report: Better Use of Terrorist Watchlist Information and Improvements in Deployment of Passenger Screening Checkpoint Technologies Could Further Strengthen Security (pdf)

01 January 2010

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General Accountability Office (GAO) report: Better Use of Terrorist Watchlist Information and Improvements in Deployment of Passenger Screening Checkpoint Technologies Could Further Strengthen Security (pdf) This report by the respected GAO confirms that:

"the intelligence community did not effectively complete these steps and link available information to the subject before the incident. Therefore, agencies did not nominate the individual to the watchlist or any of the subset lists used during agency screening, such as the “No Fly” list... Also, screening agencies stated that they do not check against all records in the watchlist."

On body scanners (called "Whole Body Imagers") the USA is to install 878 units by 2014 but the GAO notes:

"In October 2009, GAO reported that TSA had not yet conducted an assessment of the technology’s vulnerabilities to determine the extent to which a terrorist could employ tactics that would evade detection by the AIT. Thus, it is unclear whether the AIT or other technologies would have detected the weapon used in the December 25 attempted attack"

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