Originally Posted by
PTravel
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.
Politics wasn't the reason intelligence wasn't shared before 9/11. It was because we had built walls between those in the intelligence community, and those in the law enforcement community, and those walls were the product of forty-plus years of the cold war era.
With regard to security, I don't see this administration doing anything to roll back anything their predecessors did. If anything, it looks like they are going to push the envelope further out. So far, at least.