Originally Posted by
law dawg
To sum up: better screeners were needed, not because the others failed on 9/11 but because the game had changed. We needed better trained people at those positions. Whether we had to federalize is arguable, but I think it obvious that pre-9/11 screening was unsat.
Concur with the need for better training. But the jump to a federalized work force was made without any real debate and discussion about whether there was another alternative.