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Introduce this kind of variable. >> reporter: last year the special counsel ordered dhs to investigate brainards complaints righting, "there is a substantial likelihood that the information provided to osc discloses gross mismanagement and specific danger to public safety." >> my biggest fear is having something happen that costs american lofts, and i didnt step up and put a stop to it at least try because its going to happen. its not a question of if, its a question of when. we are along overdu...

Brainard has secured a whistle-blower attorney. in response to the claims in our story the head of tsa told me, we provide a valuable service and its our responsibility to fully investigate the concerns to see if they represent a valid security risk or not but the tsa said they have not completed their assessment. ahead, an evangelical magazine calls for president trump to be removed from the oval office. hear why and if this impacts the presidents religious base. can you tell me the story aga...

Shorten wait times. tsa reduced the sensitivity on all walk through metal detectors across america. >> they are reducing the concentration of metal that it would take to set off that alarm so you can speed up lines. >> how do you know thats why they did it. >> because theres a memo out that supports it. >> brainard says the practice continues today and he worries bomb making ingredients could go undetected. >> it is an unhealthy obsession, placing time over safety. >> this internal memo states a...

Setting. brainard said the practice continues today and worries bomb making components could go undetected. you could have a 30 minute wait time and they treat it like a national merge. its unhealthy obsession. >> reporter: he said that also led to them disabling x-ray machines. this memo states as of last month the x-ray machines should be operated without the autodetection algorithm enabled. >> a box will come around, surround the item say look at this, that box is no longer on the screen. tsa...

That are vetted. >> reporter: cnn put it to tsas adm administra administrator. he said the agency is not prioritizing wait times over security. >> i wont discuss our security procedures because thats not appropriate for me to do. but rest assured we provide the level of security we think is appropriate based on the risk to the passenger. >> reporter: brainard said the issues he raised are problematic for an agency with a 95% failure rate in detecting items at the checkpoint. thats according to a...

Leadership. more than 40 million u.s. airline passengers are expected to go through airport security checkpoints this holiday. but this tsa security director says you may not be as safe as you think. >> what theyre doing is injecting danger into the system. >> reporter: jay brainard is the top tsa official in his state and has been with the agency for 17 years. he says tsa is cutting corners on the screening process to shorten wait times. they reduced the sensitivity on all walk through metal de...

Years. said the tsa is cutting corners on the screening process to cut down on wait times. he said one of the things theyre doing is reducing the concentration. >> theyre reducing the concentration of finding metal. >> this order came out in 2013, quote, changing all walkthrough metal detector lanes to the tsa precheck setting to normalize the passenger experience. brainard says the practice continues today and he worried bomb-making components could go undetected. >> youd have a 30-minute wait ...

Whistle-blower says airports across the u.s. is becoming unsafe. >> in an exclusive report, that whistle-blower is telling cnn the tsa is cutting standards to make lines move faster. >> this tsa whistle-blower is coming forward because he says the concerns he raised over the last couple of years have not been addressed. to put it simply, he says the agency is putting speed over security. he said the tsa officers on the front lines are not to blame. the screening changes, he said, have come from ...

Counsel ordered the complaints to be investigated. >> my biggest fear is having something happen that costs american lives and i didnt step up and put a stop to it or at least try. because its going happen. its not a question of if. its a question of when. we are long over-dow for another attack. >> tsa did take action of one of brainards complaints. he says they continued to use an ineffective test to determine if new hires were colorblind, a disqualifying condition. >> if you had something in ...

Technology. this internal memo state as of last month the x-ray machines should be operated without the auto algorithm enabled. >> a box will come around and say stop and take a look at this, that box is no longer on the screen. tsa has made changes to the settings which really hampers the ability of the operator. >> tsa will say this is preczech. >> theyve put millions of passengers into precheck that are not precheck, so you do not have an entire population in precheck that are vetted. >> davi...