Originally Posted by Superguy

I actually agree with that statement. That it's not the intent.

However, TSA also props up finding the petty criminals thru SPOT as a major success, even though those people also have no weapons on them or any intent to do any harm to a flight. So if finding those people in those instances is considered a success, why isn't it considered a failure when they get thru?

My point is that TSA is trying to have it both ways. Claim success when they find someone that isn't a threat to aviation but claim the program isn't designed to do that when it's missed.

If they want to claim it's not designed to do that ... that's fine. Just don't claim a success when a petty criminal that's not a threat to aviation is found.