TSA Pledges to Retrain Frontline Officers by September's End

Lawmakers unhappy with the agency's performance gave its new leader encouragement, but also a warning that things must improve.

Travelers are screened by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers at a security check point at O'Hare Airport on June 2, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. The Department of Homeland Security said that the acting head of the TSA would be replaced following a report that airport screeners failed to detect explosives and weapons in nearly all of the tests that an undercover team conducted at airports around the country.
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