Last month, TSA Chief Kip Hawley evaded questions for Congress about why Congress' oversight arm, GAO, was able to sneak real live bombs (IEDs=Improvised Explosive Devices) and real live fire bombs (IIDs=Improvised Incindiary Devices) onto airplanes — yet again.

Hawley down played the results of this year's undercover tests by suggesting the bombs smuggled onto aircraft by investigators — made for less than $150 and from technology available on the Internet — were hardly "catastrophic" and in fact, were more like "firecrackers." Not according to these videos prepared by GAO they're not. 

GAO's Explosion Demonstration Videos are a must see for anyone who wants to press their Congressperson for holding TSA's feet to the fire before the next US aircraft explodes over an American city.  

Find out how to write to your Congressperson by visiting Congress.org and typing your zip code into the search window. As a point of reference, use the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing from November 15, 2007: One Year Later: Have TSA Airport Security Checkpoints Improved? Its chairman in Henry A. Waxman.

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