Originally Posted by
gingersnaps
...Neffenger has spoken about how TSA Management was rated. Neffenger even stated that the performance measurement would be reevaluated.
Note that he said the measurement would be re-evaluated, not the performance. So, if you fail on *this* scale, you don't need to do better, you just need a smaller scale.
Originally Posted by
RadioGirl
...What kind of idiots would throw $7.6 BILLION at something that continues to fail year after year? (Oh, yeah. Those idiots.

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No, it's not the idiots who throw that money at the problem, its the crooks in Washington, who make big money from defense and security contractors throwing money at their campaigns, from investment in such companies, and from lucrative post-political positions with those companies.