Originally Posted by
sbrower
I am no fan of the TSA searches. But this post is virtually irrelevant. The fact remains that there was a 95% (probably 99.9% chance) that they *would* find the knife. No terrorist will plan something where there is a 99.9% chance of failure. The fact that a random knife or gun gets into the "sterile" area has no impact on the theory of security being used by TSA and its superiors.
And what are you basing this on? Some hard statistics provided by TSA
Or just a guess on your part? To be honest you have no idea, the TSA has no idea and I have no idea the likelihood one could sneak a weapon past security. We have no idea how many instances of a "random knife or gun gets into the sterile area". We are totally dependent on random reports such as this one. How many go unreported? Maybe a few, maybe hundreds. But to make such a blanket statement based on nothing serves no purpose whatsoever.
SAM