<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by The Unknown Screener:
Spiff...you know good and well that the airlines determine how many "selectees" they choose. On charter flights they pick them by hand, marking the boarding passes at random. The TSA has ZERO control over that and you should take that up with your favorite airline.
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Then please explain why there are tons of selectees now and almost none prior to 9/11. Answer: the TSA is forcing the airlines into selecting passengers. Hardly something that can be blamed on the airlines, though I often wish they would get together and tell the TSA: NO!
Also please explain why if there aren't enough selectees to keep the wand wizards happy at the gate, the wand wizards will pick their own selectees.
It's a stupid, flawed process that does nothing for security except make the so-called "security" folks look busy without having to work in the food court. The people at the TSA who forced the airlines to participate in this disgraceful, un-American process should be shot. Or sent to a country that "randomly" checks up on its comrades, er citizens.
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