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Section 107
Where to start? I suppose I am arguing semantics but words are important and JoeBas' statement is actually opinion and exaggeration.
Mostly I am challenging the assertion that it is common knowledge that the red team numbers have been abysmal. The actual results of DHS OI testing (the true "red teams") (not including the IG's testing), are held extremely closely, barely even shared with DHS' congressional oversight committees. So it cannot be common knowledge.
I do agree that it is common opinion the rates are abysmal.
It's pretty easy for some to smuggle at least some restricted WEI past most TSA screening checkpoints. Some "some assembly required" WEIs would have a very high success rate of being missed by the TSA (and most other passenger screening entities). Absent a high proportion of passengers being subjected effectively to ETD of the right sorts, the rates of effective interdiction against some threats would be abysmal, abysmal as reported:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-u...ry?id=31434881
Sort of amusing how the TSA uses some my language in its discussions about itself.