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Fortunately, the TSA and airport screening is pretty irrelevant in the overall counterterrorism effort. It's very effective at security theater, which keeps Congress, the media, and a large percentage of the American public happy and "feeling safe." The only things that happens at an airport checkpoints are:
1. Catching the amateurs, defined as the guy who forgot he had a gun in his carry-on; 2. Catching common criminals using the cover of an "administrative search". 3. Taking on the mission of human trafficking by demanding that little kids state their names in front of their parents at the ID checker interrogation. |
Originally Posted by gingersnaps
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Are you suggesting that private security firm - motivated by profit - would attempt to report security issues/violations to a TSA Management that has shown IT WILL NOT be called out on security issues/violations.
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Originally Posted by Himeno
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Such a company should report it to Congress. If TSA management is the problem, report the issue to those with oversight of said problem.
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Originally Posted by Boggie Dog
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If RadioGirl was your boss I bet it would be very hard to BS your way out of a problem.
Originally Posted by WillCAD
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RadioGirl for TSA Administrator!
:cool:^^^:cool: Problem 1: Living in Washington DC. Been there, done that, got the scars. Problem 2: Imagine what happens at the approval hearing when they find my FT history. :eek: |
Originally Posted by RadioGirl
(Post 26432480)
True. Fortunately the people who work for (and with) me are incredibly competent and working on very hard problems. Consequently, the (very few) mistakes are due to the complexity of our work, are therefore quickly acknowledged, forgiven, rectified, and serve to increase our collective knowledge. No one who tried to BS their way out of it would get hired in the first place. (Hint to TSA?)
Thanks for your support, but no. ;) Problem 1: Living in Washington DC. Been there, done that, got the scars. Problem 2: Imagine what happens at the approval hearing when they find my FT history. :eek: |
Originally Posted by Boggie Dog
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I just Googled "TSA Screening Test Failures" and received 363,000 returns.
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Originally Posted by Boggie Dog
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You could commute.;)
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Originally Posted by WillCAD
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If she did, she'd be the first TSA administrator who actually flew commercial on a regular basis.
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Originally Posted by Boggie Dog
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Who said she would go commercial?
One of my Dad's friends used to rate a helo when he was with DoD. Alas, he was never so bold as to bring us along to play golf. |
Originally Posted by Section 107
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DHS has lots of aircraft at its disposal - but only in rare circumstances would an Administrator get to use one. However, she could hitch rides with the Commandant of the Coasties or with CBP...
One of my Dad's friends used to rate a helo when he was with DoD. Alas, he was never so bold as to bring us along to play golf. |
Originally Posted by Boggie Dog
(Post 26434161)
You could commute.;)
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Originally Posted by mikeef
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I bet if we took up a collection, we could get enough FTers to sponsor upgrades for all of her weekly round-trips.
Mike |
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