Originally Posted by
LuvAirFrance
Run me through the scenario whereby they would find a terrorist. Suppose their efforts deter terrorists. The thing is that a terrorist has to get BY them to know they are failing. So what are the examples we know of terrorists that get by them? Abdulmuttalab got by Dutch security. Reid was stopped before he could reach TSA's jurisdiction. Terrorists have flown in WITHOUT carrying explosives. I'd call that half a failure. The ideal system would catch people who want into the country so they can assemble bombs here.
By the way, props for border security for stopping that guy at Port Angeles who had a trunk full of bomb material. But that was before 2001.
A lot of skull energy is spent here on how TSA totally fails. Perhaps a speck of that could be marshalled to show how terrorists with explosive penetrate our defenses.
Did you bother to read the report? If you did, you'd have one answer to your question-- not the one you'd want, but it doesn't look like you bothered to read the report based on your post.