<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by CameraGuy:
I stated PROPER Federal Oversight.
The FAA, thanks in no small part to Norman Minetta's incompetence was not overseeing ANYTHING in 2001.
As for staffing, the baggage screening is a very weak excuse. All the TSA has to do is obtain functional bomb detection equipment. eliminate all the false positive readings, eliminate at least 1 position.
I still stand behind my statement that 1 in every 4 TSA employees is an unneccesary position.
As for immigrants, Legal or Illegal, if it's my tax dolllars paying their salaries, they **** sure better be American Citizens. If they are Illegal, how in God's name could they even file a lawsuit. They should have been shipped home the instant they set foot in the courthouse.</font>
Cameraguy, the FAA had oversight since the 1960's. So was their oversight any better then? As for the bomb detection machines that eliminates ALL false positives, well I guess you had better build one, cause they don't exist. I think you fail to grasp just how many bags are screened every day, they number in the millions, and the false positives are a VERY SMALL number out of that. You might feel that 25% of the positions can be done away with, and maybe they can. But at that level of manning you might not see much of a difference at the checkpoint, but your bags might not get on your plane on time. Ya see, with some airports having over 80 airlines flying out of them with multiple flights daily, the screeners have to work at a fevered pace to keep up with all the baggage and still screen them thoroughly. You see things one way from one side of the wall, if you were moving those 60-90 lb bags, you might think otherwise.