TSA spends $800,000 a year to store obsolete equipment
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The TSA makes it so easy for critics to point out the agency’s operational inefficiencies, which waste taxpayers’ money and overshadow its necessary security functions.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is warehousing $119 million worth of screening equipment in space including an unneeded area the size of an American-football field, the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general said.
TSA is renting 72,074 square feet (6,696 square meters) worth of unneeded space in three Texas warehouses to store some of the gear, at a cost of about $800,000 a year, the inspector general said.
One set of machines sat in storage so long that they became obsolete before they w
