{"id":390728,"date":"2010-03-04T16:20:39","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002870"},"modified":"2010-03-04T16:27:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:27:13","slug":"former-head-of-security-at-ohare-says-the-airports-security-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/390728","title":{"rendered":"Former Head Of Security At O&#8217;Hare Says The Airport&#8217;s Security Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/3-4-2010%204-07-14%20PM-thumb-241x159-37764.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>According WBEZ, the former head of security at Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare International Airport says security at the airport is &#8220;extremely weak&#8221; and &#8220;easily defeatable.&#8221;  We suppose he would know. <\/p>\n<p>The former security chief is protesting his dismissal from the airport with a lawsuit that alleges improper firing and slander. He claims that airport bosses are too distracted with airport expansion plans to care about security.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n In the eight months that I was the head of security under the Andolino administration, the commissioner of the busiest airport of the world, depending on who&#8217;s taking the survey, the busiest airport in the world, never once had a meeting with the head of security for the busiest airport in the world. Never once.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Mayor Richard Daley, who appointed the former security boss, says the man is just &#8220;disgruntled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbez.org\/Content.aspx?audioID=40407\">Former Head of Security: O&#8217;Hare Vulnerable to Attack<\/a> [WBEZ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According WBEZ, the former head of security at Chicago&#8217;s O&#8217;Hare International Airport says security at the airport is &#8220;extremely weak&#8221; and &#8220;easily defeatable.&#8221; We suppose he would know. The former security chief is protesting his dismissal from the airport with a lawsuit that alleges improper firing and slander. He claims that airport bosses are too [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}