Of course they didn't - "TSA didn't keep track of ex-employees' badges and uniforms..."

You know, I bet I wouldn't even mind the encroaching totalitarianism and loss of civil liberties if they were even halfway fucking competent at their jobs. But they are not.

TSA didn't keep track of ex-employees' badges and uniforms - Boing Boing:

"A Homeland Security Committee investigation has found that the TSA was negligent in keeping track of former officers' uniforms and badges, so that an unknown number are now floating around, ready to be worn by anyone who wants to impersonate a TSA officer in order to bring a 3.1 ounce tube of toothpaste into a major US airport, thus causing every plane in the sky to crash simultaneously."