my basic response is that TSA screening of pax has done nothing to make domestic flights originating in the United States any safer than existed on 9/10/2001.

The threats have come from flights originating abroad and that were headed TO (not from) the United States.

What now exists is an agency run amuck that was created in the cloud of fear and that must continue to expand its trampling of civil liberties in an attempt to remain viable even though they have failed to find their domestic trophy.

A far better solution would be for the agency to act upon intelligence that exists (you know, like when the visa in the underwear case could have been revoked but wasn't because the intelligence peeps did not want to alert the terrorists that we knew about them). Failure to act on intelligence should NEVER be used as a basis to punish the very significant majority of passengers who do not pose a threat.