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Newark Airport's Security Cameras Were Broken

 
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Newark Airport's Security Cameras Were Broken
A set of security cameras owned by Newark Liberty International Airport were not functioning Sunday night when a person was spotted walking into a secure section of the airport, setting off a security alert and shutting down the airport for hours, ABC News has learned.
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Now, the responsibility to operate those cameras has become a point of contention between the airport and the Transportation Security Administration.

The security cameras, owned by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the airport's operator, "were not working at all," according to a government source with knowledge of the situation, forcing the TSA to seek permission to use other cameras controlled by Continental Airlines. That added two hours to the response time at the Newark airport, which was where one of the four jets used in the Sept. 11 terror attacks took off more than eight years ago.

The Port Authority said it pays for the cameras but does not operate them or maintain them, adding that it's up to the TSA to inform the Port Authority when the cameras are not working properly so they can be fixed. The Port Authority said that on Sunday night the cameras were rolling but not recording, therefore rendering them useless in the effort to determine whether a breach occurred, and that the TSA did not inform the airport that the cameras were out.

"That's a huge problem," said the government source, adding that this is "one of the biggest problems that we've found through this experience."

The TSA, however, which has the primary governmental responsibility to secure the nation's skies, says it has no independent control of any surveillance cameras at any airport in the country.
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The revelation that the cameras were nonfunctional comes as the TSA investigates the Sunday security breach that brought the Newark airport's busiest terminal to a halt for more than seven hours.

The breach occurred at approximately 5:20 p.m. Sunday, when a man was spotted walking the wrong way through an exit door leading to the airport's Terminal C secure area.

The incident was captured on Continental's surveillance cameras, but it took TSA officials two hours to confirm the breach. The response might have been faster, one source told ABC News, if TSA had better access to the tapes, calling this a "sticking point."

At many airports, the TSA does have immediate access to surveillance tapes. In the case of Newark's Terminal C, Continental runs the terminal and TSA was forced to go through the airline to obtain surveillance footage for review.

Once Sunday's breach was confirmed by TSA after 7 p.m., security screening stopped as an attempt was made to locate the man who had passed through the wrong door. Moments later, it was decided to remove all passengers from Terminal C -- the airport's busiest -- so that officers could search the concourse and every passenger could be rescreened.

The TSA officer stationed at the exit door as been reassigned.

"The officer has been assigned to non-screening duties pending a review of the breach," the TSA's Ann Davis said. "TSA will look at all of the circumstances and make a determination as to what level of disciplinary action is warranted."

U.S. Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, D-N.J., plans to question the nation's top aviation security officials about this incident at a hearing Jan. 20.

"The TSA's failure to prevent someone from walking into a secure area of Newark Liberty Airport is completely unacceptable. This security breakdown was inexcusable, especially when our aviation system was supposedly on high alert," Lautenberg said in a statement. "TSA must immediately conduct a full investigation to determine what went wrong and make sure it never happens again so that air passengers feel confident every time they board a plane."

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Re: Newark Airport's Security Cameras Were Broken
Just think how the new Health Care will work, especially if it's run by the gubbermint.
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Re: Newark Airport's Security Cameras Were Broken
Just think how the new Health Care will work, especially if it's run by the gubbermint.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 857882

alot of people wil get sicker with crummy personel running things .





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