Originally Posted by
studentff
Take the vast majority of the $ that goes to TSA and divvy it up between CIA for foreign intelligence work and FBI for domestic (subject to all Constitutional restraints); use the remainder for a skeleton airport security operation consisting of metal detectors, hand wands, explosives trace swabbing, and baggage x-ray. You'd have a much safer and more secure commercial aviation system.
That certainly makes some sense. The reason I proposed the computer is because the current TDC work seems pitiful and useless at best. Some (not I) would argue that that describes the entire TSA.
Just one point of clarification. Are you saying that the CIA need not act in a way which adheres to the Constitution when working internationally, or did you mean those constraints apply to both agencies?
Thanks to all for the extremely prompt replies.