Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775
However, just because some action is possible, and because a government agency takes that action, does not automatically make that action correct. The additional search because no ID is presented presumes that ID adds an appreciable positive element to security. If memory serves correctly, all 19 terrorists on 9/11 presented IDs at the checkpoints. The supposedly defective screening process detected boxcutters on some of these slimes who presented IDs. So much for showing IDs.
Incorrect. Based on the overall security procedures in place on 9/11, they were able to fly on that date.
Procedures in place now as a multilayered web would likely have disrupted their plans entirely or significantly. At the very least, it would have introduced operational risk at a level to them that would have changed their approach ina way that elevated our opportunity to capture them.