Originally Posted by
halls120
Based on what I've seen so far, not much differently. Fear motivates people fairly equally. I believe this administration would have rushed just as fast to create a flawed DHS, because most of the people who work in this town are career employees, and I know that many of my colleagues saw 9/11 as an opportunity to advance their careers with the inevitable growth of government that the attacks spurred.
You may be right. However, I don't believe this administration would have encouraged the constitutional excesses that are the hallmark of the TSA, nor would it have appointed the conservative judges who make up approximately 80% of the federal bench and appellate courts and have upheld these outrageous "administrative searches." Needless to say, this administration wouldn't have botched the hunt for bin Laden in Afghanistan and would have never entered into the disastrous Iraq War. And, finally, I suspect 9/11 would have been averted because this administration, unlike the previous one, wouldn't have politicized the intelligence community and ignored intelligence briefing.
Airport security is a good thing. I just wish we had some. Instead, we have TSA.