SECURITY THEATER: TSA fails most tests in latest undercover operation at US airports.

When ABC News asked the source if the failure rate was 80 percent, the response was, “You are in the ballpark.”

In a public hearing after a private classified briefing to the House Committee on Homeland Security, members of Congress called the failures by the Transportation Security Administration disturbing.

Rep. Mike Rogers went as far as to tell TSA Administrator David Pekoske, “This agency that you run is broken badly, and it needs your attention.”

It isn’t broken. TSA is doing exactly what it was designed to do: Create the illusion that Washington is Doing Something.