Originally Posted by
eyecue
The idiocy would be to not get the shoes removed. How can anyone say that nothing was in the shoes or on the feet unless the shoes are checked seperately. A pat down is just that, testing the texture of objects compared to the feel of soft tissue. If the shoes are on, a person cant feel soft tissue.
The puffers did a pretty good job of detecting explosives WITHOUT removing the shoes. Yet TSA decided to go to a technology that doesn't detect explosives instead of one that did. So the idiocy lies in regression to flawed techniques that provide security theater instead of real security.
Then again, this is TSA, so should we be surprised?