Originally Posted by
chollie
I'm beginning to think there's a larger goal behind this whole fiasco - the shift from NoS as secondary to primary, the correspondingly larger number of people getting patted down, the new and invasive nature of the patdowns, Pistole's aggressive and uncompromising attitude - I think the desired goal is to re-privatize TSA.
It won't result in the experience being any better for the pax. It also won't result in the 'experience' (pay and benefits) being any better for the line TSOs. But someone, possibly related to Chertoff, will be making a LOT of money.
Oh, it wouldn't surprise me for a second if that was the plan all along. However, unless there is about a 2:1 ratio of those things versus the amount of magnetometers out there, there is NO WAY the lines can keep moving at the pace they do now. And I'm thinking it would probably need to be 3:1 in reality. I don't think most airports can handle that.