Did a TSA guard's cell phone conversation enable an unidentified man to pass through a secure exitway at Newark Airport Sunday? Sources tell the Daily News that surveillance video shows the guard chatting on his cell phone at the moment of the trespass. The TSA tells NY1 that's simply not true, but we look forward to seeing this video anyway (preferably at high speed to the tune of "Yakety Sax"). After wandering past the guard, video shows the man, who appears to be Asian, meeting up with a woman in a white coat, then leaving from another exit about 20 minutes after he entered.
Chat or no chat, the guard has been reassigned to non-screening duties pending the outcome of an investigation. And yesterday Newark doubled security at every exit, so that now there will be two TSA guards watching all Terminal C exits—because this sort of thing could never happen at Terminal B or A exits.
