Originally Posted by exerda
For that matter, it probably doesn't take much to buddy up with the caterers for the flights, either. Guess we WILL have to ban in-flight beverage services after all.
Just another hole in the system. There is nothing preventing someone with a bomb package from waiting along an airport perimeter road, have their colleague, perhaps a catering or ramp worker stop their truck for a moment, toss the package over the fence undetected, then it will get loaded on the aircraft.
I could sit here all day long coming up with holes the TSA will never plug.
We need to face some facts - we will never be fully safe and risk is part of the equation.
By now, with more information at hand, the TSA should be preparing to unwind these screening procedures and return things to normal. If there is evidence the threat is still out there, we should be notified.