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TSA's "Screening Management Standard Operating Procedures" Manual Posted on Web, Then Withdrawn

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Washington Post: “The Transportation Security Administration inadvertently revealed closely guarded secrets regarding airport passenger screening practices when it posted online this spring a document as part of a contract solicitation, the agency confirmed Tuesday. The 93-page TSA operating manual details procedures for screening passengers and checked baggage and reveals technical settings used by X-ray machines and explosives detectors. It also includes pictures of identification cards used by members of Congress, CIA employees and federal air marshals, and it identifies 12 countries whose passport holders are automatically subjected to added scrutiny.”

  • “U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, today blasted the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), which has been charged with protecting America’s airports since the terror attacks of 9/11, for committing a “significant breach of security” by inadvertently posting its complete, 93-page airport screening manual on the World Wide Web. The recent Web posting of the TSA’s manual, “Screening Management Standard Operating Procedures,” was done incorrectly, allowing all portions of sensitive, redacted material to be fully accessed and read by sophisticated Web users. The Senator called the bungled posting “shocking” and “reckless.”
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