CNN did an interesting piece on this topic tonight. Apparently TSA has back-pedaled and is now saying that they were never looking for explosives in your shoes (!!!) but rather for "anomalies" that could be indicative of explosives. Trust me, I almost fell out of my chair when I heard that, but it got even better from there.

So the CNN folks got a smaller-sized but functionally equivalent version of one of the the X-ray machines the TSA uses (made by the same manufacturer) and showed right on camera how if there's no metal and you do a good job of putting it in, you can easily put explosives into the shoes with no "anomaly" visible on the screen. (and yes, they had the appropriate expert verify this, etc. etc.)

I'm not sure where eyecue is coming up with his "not devastating" comment, but what I saw on CNN tonight, combined with the original AP report, sure seemed pretty darn devastating to me.

What can we do when we have a government bureaucracy that has no compunction whatsoever about lying to our faces?!?