Originally Posted by
LessO2
Given that the vast majority of the checkpoints are still using the same magnetometers and x-ray machines that the private screeners used, I would say very little. Except for the likelihood that the private screeners were probably held accountable, whereas the TSA stands for Teflon "Security" Agency.
Sure, the FAA closed the barn door after the horses left in prohibiting box-cutters immediately after 9/11, and the TSA has expanded the list a bit.
But what's out there right now is nothing that couldn't be done by private screeners. It was the FAA's negligence, coupled with The Bush Administration's failure to act on the 8/6/01 warning that led to the events on 9/11.
Now we're paying the price for simply crossing our fingers for so long and a knee-jerk reaction that mainly focuses on PR and the feeling of being safe.
The blame game for 9/11 stretches further back than Bush. If we go down this road it will drown us in irrelevant comments.
Let's keep politics out of this.
Fact is this, on 9/11 we were attacked. The blame falls solely on those that attacked us. The blame for things that we, the people, have allowed to happen in response to the attacks fall solely on us.