Originally Posted by
Always Flyin
Very true. If that happens, you go back to court and argue that the initial screening failure rate has risen significantly, which has the effect of requiring more people to go through secondary screening.
Sadly, TSA will probably classify the screening rates and refuse to release them, and they'll just laugh at any judge who holds them in contempt. The Bush administration set a nice precedent on that one, ignoring court orders and blowing off Congressional subpoenas.
This is a trend I don't get at all. I can see not discussing national security matters in open civilian court, but there have always been ways to oversee these things in private. The idea that national security should operate without any oversight whatsoever is ridiculous. Even a former NSA director says that. (I finally started reading James Bamford's "Body of Secrets" 10 years after I bought it
)