Ex-TSA chief on L.A. drug smuggling: "This is betrayal, this is treason"

CBS News Thursday 26th April, 2012

(CBS News) LOS ANGELES - We reported Wednesday about a bust of TSA airport screeners, allegedly caught up in a smuggling operation. Correspondent Brian Rooney in Los Angeles has new details surrounding the operation. The L.A. investigation turned on a bungled drug shipment that led to an arrest, and information that TSA screeners were taking bribes to let parcels of cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana through security. "The timing was critical...

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