Originally Posted by
Mister Dystopia™
My hat is off to you. You understand that everything should be the same across the board in all airports with no deviation in the way policy is enforced. Unlike it is now. I guess we should call what is going on "The McDonalds Problem". McDonalds can have the same level of service and the same quality of food anywhere in the USA. Why can't the TSA have the same level of security screening across the USA, regardless of WTMD or NoS? That is what I think most people here can't get around. And operating outside of the standard operating procedure at anytime should be a immediate dismissal from the TSA.
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The oft cited reason for the widely different processes is that all airports are different, the local option for managers to have stricter local requirements, it keeps the terrorists guessing, and misinterpretation of the SOP in the first place. Might be some more reasons, but think that the general rule is that TSA upper level management lacks the ability to recognize their agency was given a chance to do right by the travelers and failed miserably to correct the wrongs early in TSA's existence making it substantially harder now to fix what is broken.