Originally Posted by
mauve
Is there any data that shows the current ETD machines work better, or that they have ever detected a legitimate threat?
For that matter, why would TSA think the enhanced patdown works better with the ETD process than the old patdown procedure?
Screeners apparently missed "threats" attached to bodies during the testing in 2015. (IIRC, a pat down missed something taped to a passenger's back that had been initially identified by either MMW or WTMD, as one example.) Therefore, because TSA apparently can't train its people to do a proper pat down (cognitive burdens, you know) they had to turn to teaching them to sexually assault passengers in order to attempt to find non-existent items.