Originally Posted by
Badenoch
Every once in a while around peak travel times or important American holidays, the DHS issues a dire warning about enhanced threats, undetectable bombs or new terrorist groups, etc.
This encourages Americans to feel proud and patriotic when they meekly accept a TSA slob jiggling their junk or another stuffing her hands into the crotch of their teenage daughter.
The rest of the world goes along because international carriers do a lot of business with the U.S. and, in extreme cases, risk having their airliners shot down if they encroach into American air space or come to close to their naval vessels.
Peak travel time, important American holidays - and in the lead-up to a new expensive device being introduced to counter the threat recently discovered in 'intel chatter'. Perhaps Chertoff and company have a stake in a specially over-priced for the taxpayer all-purpose LGA testing device that is about to be deployed.
Or privileged TSA employees wanted an excuse for a summer travel junket to review and advise their foreign colleagues on ways to conduct security. Amazing how our folks think there's nothing the US can learn from the way security is handled at foreign airports.
Amazing that these junkets to audit and dictate foreign security never seem to visit airports in third world countries - Nigeria, Kenya, Sudan, Yemen, for example.