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Oct 10, 2006 | 6:11 pm

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Originally Posted by GoingAway

I agree that having the poorly trained TSA folks do the id checks is no better (actually worse b/c they come with attitude) than the contracting folks that are here now. However I disagree that a trained person checking ids isn't a potential security improvement as there are fake ids that can be identified if you have a clue, just ask your local bouncer. Hmmm, maybe TSA should go on a recruiting mission to the local bars. Couldn't be any worse than the folks there now.

I am not concerned with fake IDs of the "unprivileged" sort being used by a passenger going through the security checkpoint. ID checking of this sort is not security.

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