So what? Employees are bad apples too and a lot of people going thru those checkpoints have had much more stringent background checks than any TSO.
And how do we identify them? Oh, perhaps by stringent I.D. checks, but you guys don't like that either, do you?
I believe we'll eventually have a protocols in place to exempt such people from some or perhaps all forms of screening, similar to what we're doing with pilots now.
Let me say it one more time - better gate security would not have prevented the 9/11 attacks. The hijackers could have been successful with nothing more than a ball point pen.
Maybe, maybe not. It's true that anyone can claim to have a bomb. But would the terrorist group have risked sending a bunch of guys willing to die for the cause (undoubtedly a valuable commodity) off to hijack a plane unarmed?
You really need to read this paper The Quixotic Quest for Invulnerability: Asessing the Costs, Benefits, and Probabilities of Protecting the Homeland by John Mueller, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University
Thanks, I'll look at that tonight.
Not hogwash to believe that. It's hogwash to the extent that TSA portrays it though,
You must be very high up in the food chain to know this for certain. I'm not privy to the sort of information necessary to make this determination.