Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
From what I saw this morning, it looks like the bad guys blew up a check-in counter area? It's been almost ten years since I was last at BRU, so I couldn't tell for sure.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/europe...ons/index.html
Here at home, how will the TSA retaliate?
More likely with more managed inclusion. As has been discussed in this thread or other threads about Brussels, the bottle neck is an issue.
Under John Pistole TSA response to airport security was:
TSA, leaders’ ... organizational behavior emphasized efficiency outcomes, creating pressures to expand the populations receiving expedited screening in TSA Pre-Check lanes, even if they had not enrolled in the program, and a pressure to clear passengers quickly, at the risk of not diligently resolving alarms
If we believe Neffenger, he has changed this
efficiency outcome,
and clear passengers quickly, at the risk of not diligently resolving alarms attitude of TSA Leadership. While Neffenger announced the end of Managed Inclusion II, we know that Managed Inclusion I remains. We also know that TSA operates another program known as Real Time Threat Assessment. The only noticeable difference between Managed Inclusion II and Managed Inclusion I and RTTA is the use of bomb sniffing dogs instead of hand swabs.
We must ask ourselves, does MI I or RTTA make us any safer? Chris Morran of the consumerist reported
"TSA Just Decides Everyone In My Line Is Qualified For Expedited Screening" when Morran questioned the TSA about what happened he was told “TSA also utilizes these lanes during certain times for other low-risk passengers who are identified through a real-time threat assessment process,”. Morran goes onto to explain "a man who appeared to be a TSA supervisor stood and declared that my line and the one next to it are now PreCheck lanes."
Here is a
archived webpage from TSA about Managed Inclusion which informs "After the
initial risk assessment by Passenger Screening Canines and Behavior Detection Officers as passengers move through the standard security checkpoint area." The safety of the traveling public is left entirely too dogs that can be fooled and those who are affectionately term "SPOTNIKS" here on Flyertalk. Most important of Morran's article is:
There were no canines sniffing around the lines in question, no electronic mat with directional arrows. What’s described in above and in the below video is a process wherein a decision is made at the checkpoint about each passenger, but the situation I was part of involved a supervisor simply declaring that two lines were now PreCheck.
For sake of argument, consider that Morran account is true a TSA Supervisor announces to entire general public "these lanes are now Precheck". What kind of security is found in announcing to the whole public where the least screening is occurring? Back in the days of hand swab Managed Inclusion, I heard TSA supervisor announce the percentage of individuals who should get their hands swabbed.
As has been revealed recently, TSA will call for more dogs - this was reported as a solution for MSP wait times. So while Neffenger wants us to believe that TSA is now focused on security and not "efficiency outcomes" and that TSA is focused on diligent alarm resolution and not the speed of clearing passengers...nothing has changed in how TSA conducts itself. Dogs and spotniks used to reduce wait times...same song and dance different performer.