Originally Posted by
NY-FLA
Hmmm! Wasn't it your agency's administrator, who just last week, determined that once airline and airport employees had been given get out of the nude-o-scope free cards, the TSA could now concentrate on the rest of us, since we were all the "potential terrorists"?
Your agency's brush is far more broad and far more ugly.
Originally Posted by
gsoltso
Passengers are not potential terrorists, they are simply passengers. We screen them according to the SOP so there is no tendency to profile one type of person over another. I, for one, disagree with letting the flight crews go with no screening. I am also in agreement with several of the posters on here that TSA personnel could be screened entering the checkpoint as well - as in, I do not mind screening upon entry to the checkpoint. There are several things we do right as an agency, there are also seveeral areas that offer us a chance for improvement.
Well, your Administrator Pistole; tearing himself away from his wet dream of giving TS"O"'s weapons and LEO powers, said different.
With the change, “we save limited resources in terms of who we are physically screening,” Pistole said in the interview. The approach will “allow us to pay more attention to those potential terrorists.”
You might not think all pax are potential terrorists, but the person who is supposed to set the tone and direction for your organization, apparently does. I'm not surprised that the irony of you accusing us here on FT of using broad ugly brushes, while your administrator with all that power and responsibility, does the same only larger and uglier, is irony completely lost on you.