Originally Posted by halls120

^^ TSA was never about making air travel safer. It is a massive public relations scheme devised by Congress and the Bush WH created to provide the illusion of security, and that your government is doing everything it can to prevent terrorism. The creators know it is a joke, and they know it doesn't provide any material increase in security, but it DOES provide federal jobs, and, more importantly, it gives our "leaders" plausible deniability if there is another aviation-related terrorist attack, so it's never going away.