In case you missed the latest cluster F*** brought to you by our very own TSA. –They gave the bad guys of the world an absolutely wonderful Christmas gift. They published their security manual online for all to see.
It was an effort to hire a contractor to rewrite the manual with certain parts redacted(blacked out) on the website. –It turns out that the redacted parts were visible if you highlighted them copied and pasted into any text reader.
The TSA: Those people who think the world will be safer if we take off our shoes.
Those people who hired felons to keep us safe.
Those people who couldn’t figure out what a Macbook Air was.
And yet in spite of the presence ot the ever vigilant, highly trained, experts from the TSA who guard our airports Major airports fail security tests every time. (a 70% failure rate is what I’ve read)
Now Congress is asking TSA for proof that all these expensive security measures are working, because it turns out that, despite rigorous training, screeners continue to miss things that government inspectors smuggle through the checkpoints.
This report was filed by 60 minutes in December 2008 and updated in July 2009.
Go to a checkpoint and you’ll find passengers bellyaching about the undressing, the unbuckling, and the taking off of their shoes – which they don’t have to do in Europe or even Israel, where airline security is especially tight.
There are fewer headaches in a country with as many active enemies as Israel??
But the TSA has a record of tracking and stopping innocent passengers, which has contributed to the agency’s overall credibility problem. In focus groups, travelers questioned the TSA’s ability to keep us safe and also complained about “pointless” security measures and rude and incompetent screeners.
On the other hand, if you’re into strip searches the TSA is the way to go.
