Originally Posted by Bart
However, I am criticizing the Monday morning quarterbacking that seeks to pin blame on those screeners when it was the
policy that was flawed. I know that's your point as well, but I'm also being anal by pointing this out as well.
I don't disagree with anything in your post. I (obviously) haven't seen the tape in question, and it might well have been a case of telling the commissioners what they
wanted to hear. I have never blamed individual screeners for their actions on 9/11, in addition to being contentious it's also pointless this long afterwards.
The gist of my post was once again, to differentiate between what people think they remember happened that day, and what little evidence* we have as to what actually occurred.
* Not that I have absolute faith in the 9/11 report, its preamble acknowledges that much of the contents are 'second-hand' knowledge.