https://www.rt.com/usa/tsa-stealing-from-travelers-358/

A TSA agent convicted of stealing more than $800,000 worth of goods from travelers said this type of theft is “commonplace” among airport security. Almost 400 TSA officers have been fired for stealing from passengers since 2003.

*Pythias Brown, a former Transportation Security Administration officer at Newark Liberty International Airport, spent four years stealing everything he could from luggage and security checkpoints, including clothing, laptops, cameras, Nintendo Wiis, video games and cash.

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In February, 2011, two TSA officers were arrested for stealing $40,000 in cash from a checked bag in New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport. Using an X-ray machine, the men found that the bag contained $170,000 and removed some of the money.
It's just one giant gibs muh dat.

There's article after article I found on google search. I knew theft was high among TSA but, geez.
I'm never flying into the US as long as TSA is around.

It's just a government make work job for bottom feeders.