Well, let's see passengers have stopped every attempt since 9/11. TSA has stopped nothing. This took a congressional investigation to figure out?
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said...the "bomb sniffer" chamber might be the only decent thing they
have. If employed in enough numbers as to not send places to a
screeching halt (hi ATL), that might be useful. Otherwise all they've
accomplished is raising ticket prices. Because you know it's pointless
when they make soldiers returning from Iraq/Afghanistan take off their
boots and belts coming through security.
There was a thread on the TSA yesterday. One of the posters mentioned forgetting about having some .357 rounds in a plastic bag in his back pocket. He discovered them AFTER going through the super sensitive naked scanners. People who've been charged with auditing TSA have consistently been able to get anything they want to past TSA
"security". Guns, real and simulated, knives, and bombs are routinely missed by the knuckleheads at TSA.