Originally Posted by
corporate666
The big problem with this report is that it is going to be leveraged by the gov't/DHS/TSA to justify additional "security operations", which means more invasion of privacy and less rights for passengers.
And the crackdown that will be coming on TSA personnel is going to make them even more difficult to deal with at checkpoints.
In other words, the total opposite of what the reaction should be - which is to acknowledge that all the expense and invasion upon rights hasn't achieved anything and go back to what works and is realistically achievable.
I suspect you are dead on the mark in your assessment.
TSA's failures will be seen as a need to make screening more invasive not to review the process and fix an already broken system.