I'm usually a lurker to the FT forum but this is such a raw-nerve topic for me.
IMO it doesn't stop with Hawly, it goes all the way to the top. Our rights are being eroded/denied based on knee-jerk reactions of incompetent political appointees who don't have a clue.
I don't know that I would be brave enough to "test" TSA screeners, but Kay Bailey gets an earful on issues I feel very strongly about, of which this is one. Her staff must cringe everytime they see an email from me.....
TSA is a synonym for "window-dressing". We're no safer now than we were on 9/10/01.
Major kudos to those of you who are willing to push TSA.