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well, they have stopped thousands of firearms from getting on planes - guns which MIGHT have been used in a terroristic incident.
The pre-9/11 security measures and staff would have done the same.
BUT the TSA is MUCH WORSE than pre-9/11 security in terms of actual security. The 9/11 hijackers were successful only because the security personnel at BOS failed to follow written security procedures (see the 9/11 Commission Report).
As everyone on FlyerTalk will attest, TSA's rules are even more inconsistently applied. Again, let's remember that it was inconsistently-applied rules that allowed 9/11 to happen.