After traveling over the last week & a half I have had time to observe the efficiency and efficacy of the airport routines.
We were told that strip searching (AIT) American traveling on airplanes through commercial terminals was done to make sure that traveling is safe. We all want to be safe, but it has gone too far. And we all kind of know that body scanners and ‘pat downs’ really don’t make us safer. We put up with the unreasonable search and seizure to move forward the illusion of security.
The real story from ABC news:
TSA agents testing security at a Newark airport terminal on one day in 2006 found that TSA screeners failed to detect concealed bombs and guns 20 out of 22 times. A 2007 government audit leaked to USA Today revealed that undercover agents were successful slipping simulated explosives and bomb parts through Los Angeles's LAX airport in 50 out of 70 attempts, and at Chicago's O'Hare airport agents made 75 attempts and succeeded in getting through undetected 45 times.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/loaded-gun-slips-past-tsa-screeners/story?id=12412458
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
Benjamin Franklin
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Just playing devil's advocate here... since I totally agree that the new procedures have nothng to do with real security... but...
ReplyDeleteThe audit was from 2007... which would lead one to believe that the new measures were put in place specifically to rectify the deficiancies that were found...