Originally Posted by
Spiff
No way.
All should get WTMD, ETP/ETD, x-ray of carryons. Nothing more without clear, probable cause.
NO ID checking, BP checking, Shoe Carnival, Liquid Restrictions, Chat-Up crap, or any other harassment.
The government should not be involved in the process at all, other than to protect passengers' civil rights.
Sounds like that would be an improvement from the current state of US airport security screening and would create an opportunity to reduce costs while improving WEI interdiction. That outcome however would be dependent upon ETD/ETP processes, technology and users to improve from the current state -- certainly less likely to happen with a massive federal government workforce doing the day-to-day screening and the airlines and airports thrilled not to be running the screening operations. The more I think about this the more I love your suggestion about this.