<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by tmspa:
Trusted traveler? If we can't even trust a pilot (who has had every background check in the book and cleared by USDOT) then why should we trust hoardes of passengers that have some card stating that their "okie dokie"!</font>
Maybe because very few (if any - and probably none) of the 280 million American citizens are terrorists?
That and the fact that your agency is only concerned with sharp and pointy objects (as well as the longtime-outlawed guns and knives) - and is doing nothing to really identify and stop honest to god terrorists.
But what can we expect from an agency that operates on the premise that "everyone is a potential terrorist"?