A Washington Post opinion writer takes note of the TSA's latest gaf after noting while traveling that the TSOs have unwrapped checked Christmas presents, taken peanut butter crackers from babies...
Washington Post Partison: December 9, 2000; Armao, J:The Intolerable TSA
I was distraught to open a suitcase – that I had checked! – only to discover that the Christmas presents my mother carefully wrapped had been torn open in a search by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers.
federal security officials at the Orlando airport confiscated some peanut butter snacks from the family ahead of me
Normally, I would not even think to complain about these events. I understand that a new world exists after 9/11 and that when it comes to ensuring public safety, what’s a little inconvenience?
My equanimity, though, evaporated upon reading today how the TSA posted online a 93-page manual detailing some if its most closely guarded security secrets.
And therein likes the biggest danger. All along we have been told that there is a reason for all these silly things we are asked to do. Trust us, has been the implicit command of the TSA. Not likely.
Nothing more need be said.