WHISTLEBLOWER PILOT REVEALS HIS IDENTITY

The airline pilot who spoke out secretly after he was reprimanded by the Transportation Security Administration for posting video to YouTube showing security flaws at a major airport exposed his identity today.

"My name is Chris Liu, and I'm an airline pilot," Liu said during an special interview with affiliate KXTV in Sacramento, Calif., at his home in Colfax.Liu, 50, told KXTV he decided to come out of the gloom because he wanted to be an active player in efforts to improve airport security."You have passengers and air crew upstairs being screened, while ground crew downward come and go with the swipe of a card," he said.

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WHISTLEBLOWER: PILOT POSTS VIDEO EXPOSING AIRPORT SECURITY FLAWS

The airline pilot who was reprimand by the TSA for posting videos showing protection flaws at a major airport is speaking out absolutely for the first time, saying that it was the "fallacy of the system" that inspired him to take this action.

Late last month a 50-year-old pilot, who asked that his name and the airline he plant for not be made public, took a series of videos with his cell phone to show major flaws he says still exist in airport defense systems. The videos show how easily ground crews at San Francisco International Airport were able to access secure areas. "As you can see,airport security is kind of a travesty It's only smoke and mirrors so you people accept as true there is actually something going on here," the pilot says on one video.

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