Originally Posted by Boggie Dog

Today shortly after clearing secuity at DFW and waiting for my flight I was doing a little people watching.

About 30 feet or so from the checkpoint I cleared at are employee entrances. At these entrances airport and airline employees enter the sterile area, the same area I was in after clearing TSA security, without screening of any kind.

While watching the comings and goings of the people moving about the airport I observed two airline employees, non fight crew, who entered through the unmonitored and unscreened employee entrance. I won't say which company they worked for but they must be good American's. One was carrying two shopping bags with what appeared to be about 3 bottles of 3 liter beverages in each bag, one bag in each hand(total of 18 liters of liquids) and the other a common roll aboard suitcase.

Now I'm not suggesting either person was a bad guy but if it is this easy to bring in 18 liters of untested liquids and a container that could hold many pounds of an explosive or even used to transport stolen property in and out of the secure area just what good is being done by screening just the passengers?

If possible I would like our resident "Security Expert" to chime in and give us the rundown on what security principles this type of policy creates for maintaining a secure area.

Sure seems like TSA is Pi$$ing away a lot of tax money and no real security is happening.