Originally Posted by
SATTSO
Yes, these test are hard when they are not accurate. I have what I believe is a legitimate question after I talked to our BAOs: did the IEDs they built represent real IEDs? That they claimed to have a "low-yield detonator" suggest that it does not.
Quite possible that TSA didn't hire the experts it thought it did too. I addressed the other issues in a previous post.
At any rate, TSA prides itself on adapting to an ever changing enemy. If TSA can't adapt even to GAO tests, how can it adapt to a real terrorist?
You can't sit there and tell me failure is OK because it's hard. In the real world, it's going to be hard. That is, unless Kippie was right in saying that they're only looking for dumb terrorists who'd use a Wyle. E. Coyote type of bomb. If a bomb goes off and it wasn't detected by TSA, the excuse "well, they hid it well and it didn't look like a bomb. It was hard to detect" isn't going to cut it.