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Jun 2, 2016 | 4:17 am

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Originally Posted by jkhuggins

To the former question: do you really want the next presidential election potentially being decided by a lone assassin, as might have happened in 1968?

To the latter question: both TSA and the Secret Service are part of the same parent organization, DHS. This sort of "borrowing" from different branches of DHS has happened before --- for example, Super Bowls.

Hasn't there been an increase in US Secret Service management concerns and scandals hitting the press ever since it got moved from Treasury to DHS?

So how much of the TSA line slowdowns are due to TSA assigning people to protect election campaign events? If it's significant, it's long overdue for the TSA to get out of the campaign "security" business.

You do realize that election campaign events have been having security in place long before the TSA was created? Without the TSA putting on a show of force at election campaign events, things weren't all that bad.

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Originally Posted by TheBOSman

Why aren't there any nudeoscopes there? I thought WBI was needed to keep everything safe! All of those people can't possibly have Precheck!!

And no cross checking of boarding passes against IDs either.

Last edited by GUWonder; Jun 2, 2016 at 4:24 am

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