Originally Posted by
TSORon
Our job is not to catch terrorists. Its to prevent them. By our presence, our screening, or SOP’s and our inspectors, along with the other layers of security that the TSA/DHS oversees, we PREVENT terrorist attacks.
Ah, the old "we prevent terrorists" attacks argument. What a tired, unproven cliche.
Ron, what prevents a repeat of the 9/11 attacks is not TSA - it is the change in airline policies post-9/11 that no longer forbids resisting a hijacking attempt, along with FAMs and armed pilots. Lax gate security was NOT the cause of 9/11, so you can quit patting yourself on the back any time now.
Do we need gate security? Of course. Do we need a bloated, expensive, inefficient, federalized group of wannabe cops making life at the airport miserable? No.
Originally Posted by
TSORon
Additionally, we get intelligence from the various agencies of the government that I never have access to, but others do (policy makers) and they base decisions and policies on what that intelligence tells them. I get to see some of the stuff that comes down from on-high, and its pretty interesting stuff. Some of it makes even less sense than the policies that they are changing, but then again life is stranger than fiction.
Let me tell you about your leadership, Ron. Last year, a group of actual aviation security experts from several federal agencies, working hard over a several month period, was supposed to deliver a report to an interagency policy committee that set forth the existing threats to aviation security ranked in order of necessity. But it was never delivered. Do you know why? I'll tell you. When TSA management read it, they rejected it in horror, because passenger movement airside was NOT the greatest threat facing aviation. The real experts determined that the greatest threat to air safety was under the wing - not at the security gate. For obvious reasons, Kippie and company couldn't have that, since it would have exposed the reality of the Kabuki theatre you all are a part of. So the study was suppressed.
Life can be stranger than fiction, can't it?