Transport employees in America were secretly paid by the government to search travellers’ bags
http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2016/12/snoop-case [www.economist.com]
2016-12-07 00:29
The DEA paid TSA employees (among others) to search bags and provide tips (for which the informant received compensation for hits), in violation of policy prohibiting government employees to serve as informants.
DOJ report: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/a1633.pdf