Originally Posted by
MDtR-Chicago
The problem, as most folks would agree, is that the test has nothing to do with actually carrying explosives at the airport.
...and everything to do with letting a bunch of untrainable/unemployable/thuggish idiots appear to the uneducated to be doing something useful.
It's not that TSA employees aren't trained to understand the methodology - if they were capable of understanding the whys and wherefores of trace detection they'd have real jobs.