Originally Posted by
fpmurphy
Congress should also require TSA hirelings (TSAlings?) who inspect checked luggage to include their full name and staff number on the notice of inspection form that they put in each bag. Currently there is no way to know who inspected a checked bag.
And even if they did, there would still be plausible deniability. Someone could forge someone else's name and staff number on a notice of inspection form (or just steal a whole stack of pre-printed forms). Also, as has been noted ad nauseum, someone else (either employed by TSA or the airlines) could always open a passenger's bag outside of the luggage inspection process.
I know it sounds like a great idea in theory ... but in practice, this wouldn't help to identify many suspected thieves.
Originally Posted by
joshwex90
Not to get too OMNI/PR, but this [bill] could very well be a case where there's agreement. The TSA is a Bush-era legacy, not Obama. They may very well look to agree, and not get to partisan bickering over the role of government.
All you need is an AFS-type to get up during the debate and start yelling stuff like "Why are you cutting the pay of the brave men and women who are protecting our skies from terrorists?". The security establishment seems to cut across party lines pretty strongly.