by Donald Wood
Last updated: 5:47 PM ET, Mon July 10, 2017
June 29 was a bad day for Transportation Security Administration officers in Minneapolis, as local media outlets reported Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport failed 95 percent of security tests conducted at the facility on that date.
According to sources who spoke to Fox9.com on the condition of anonymity, a team of undercover government officials posing as passengers entered the Minnesota airport on June 29 and attempted to sneak items through TSA security checkpoints.
The report claims the undercover agents successfully smuggled explosive materials, fake weapons or drugs past TSA officers on 17 of 18 occasions, with the test only stopping after the failure rate reached 95 percent.
"TSA cannot confirm or deny the results of internal tests and condemns the release of any information that could compromise our nation's security," a TSA spokesperson said in a statement.
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Unfortunately, this is not the first time TSA employees at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport have failed a security test, as sources also told Fox9.com the facility failed nine out of 12 tests during 2016.
The failed test was revealed before the Independence Day Holiday travel period, which saw an estimated 3.5 million people fly on commercial airlines.
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