Originally Posted by
mahohmei
This, unfortunately, is used constantly by the pro-TSAers. Don't you dare say we need to stop the gropings and NoSes...what about the people in the twin towers? I watched that plane smash into the tower on TV...don't you dare say we'd be OK with pre-9/11 airport security, which was directly responsible for 9/11!
Sadly (and other adjectives not appropriate for a family website), they correctly identify that there was a hole in security, which the hijackers exploited, and then proceed to completely misidentify that hole. The gap was a combination of (a) passenger/flight crew assumption that the safe approach during a hijacking is to cooperate, and (b) an accessible cockpit.
Item A was already gone halfway through the AM of 9/11 (UA 93), and B has been fixed for years. The problem was never at the checkpoint, but that's what all the effort has been on "fixing."