Fact......no they don't and the logic is simple.....they don't want the bad guys to know what they know. Your lack of any secruity background is shockingly obvious.
This is an interesting statement. What are your credentials, AKK?
Your posted Blogs are not the general public it is a small group is people who just want to start trouble by posting partial truths and flat out lies and off beat opinion, to try an confuss people........is it thier right to...YES......it is right........ NO.
It seems the NY Times is a little more than an isolated blog who is out to start trouble. Since they are included, as well as other respected publications, in reporting TSA behaviors, I would say these sort of generalized statements fail to make your case, AKK.
As stated 34,000 emplyees.......yes there will be a few bad people..but the 99.9% of the employess are working hard to do a good job. Your comments do them and the general public harm and they deserve a applogy.
AKK.
There are more than a few "bad apples".
Personal note:
I can understand the
reason for the "freeze drill", as the TSA has let people through with items that should have been caught, and it is easier to inconvenience those in the area instead of rescreening the whole airport. That said, I think they take it way too seriously. Practice is to ingrain immediate actions, so they are performed without thought, but forcing someone not to "fidget" is just plain silly.
In addition, I have come to realize that the role of the TSA is to provide the
appearance of security, with the ancillary benefit of being able to be more vigilant to those security measures required before September 2001. Actually
delivering security against terrorist attack would require different processes and procedures, which are well documented and tested in other parts of the world, but are not the focus of the TSA.
There has not been a terrorist attack on an airline originating from the United States since September 2001; however, many of the more draconian requirements have been mandated years after the initial engagement. In addition, these enhanced requirements were not based on any actionable intelligence or imminent threat to airline safety; rather, they were implemented due to actions of terrorists on aircraft, which originated outside of our nation. To that end and based on the lack of evidence suggesting these enhancements and the TSA are at all effective, it stands to reason that we should be relaxing security and instead focusing our money and attention toward those efforts that
would be effective in stemming the tide of a future terrorist attack.
These are my thoughts. I don't consider myself anti-security or anti-TSA, but the empirical evidence of the agency's lack of
