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Accounted for about 20% of infractions. among those found to have engaged in misconduct, 40% were reprimand reprimanded, 17% were removed from duty. more troublesome for congress was the lack of a standard for misconduct enforcement. screeners who failed to detect bombs in covert testing are not dismissed but are usually allowed to retake training and in some cases repeatedly. >> someone fails multiple test and a simulated bomb is able to get through security and on to an airplane, what should be the penalty for the individual? if the goal is maximizing security. >> some believe it could be be...

Members the lack of a standard for punishing bad apples, for example screeners who failed to detect bombs in covert testing are not dismissed but usually allowed to just undergo new training and get back on the job. shep? >> if you miss a bomb i guess that's necessary. this is a relatively rare thing considering what an enormous organization we are. >> it is a huge organization employs about 56,000 people at the airports. it found 9,300 cases of misconduct so relatively minor. >> i'm going to have somebody do something stupid and it will get in the press and probably make 20 rounds in the pres...

Flew you had the pat-down tell me about it. >> it is not that fun. i don't think kids could be terrorists. i think there is no point for kids to have to be patted down. >> i think probably what makes the difference is the attitude of the american who is the employee. also the attitude of the passenger who should think that national security is the most important thing that we have now. we should be willing to do what it takes within reason. >> reporter: tsa administrator has said he wants his agency to be as less invasive as possible in the screening. he isn't backing away from the intense pol...