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Old May 31, 2011 | 8:51 am
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Originally Posted by halls120
You've highlighted a very simple point I overlooked - the ease at which someone will eventually be paid off to look the other way at the airport. It happens all the time at the border, and there is no reason to think it won't happen at the airport at some point.
Isn't that essentially what happened in Buffalo? The TSO was paid to look the other way so drugs could be smuggled.

Of course, the bad guys could convince someone it is "only" drugs, when in fact it is something else.
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