Undercover TSA Agent Smuggled Fake Bomb Through 2 TSA Checkpoints

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Would you replace TSA? With what? What kind of security would you design for commercial aviation that would be 100% effective? 90% effective? 80% effective? Pretty good, most of the time?

Please spare me with the Israeli methodology as it does not and can not be translated from their microscopic commercial aviation operation to domestic aviation in the USA.

The best government is less government.

Be safe.

Private security just like MCO, MCI. I think SAC and ATL are also on the way to this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/us...-tsa.html?_r=0

They said in the article if just the top airports switched it would save tax payers $1 billion over 5 years. Small potatoes in the world of multi trillion dollar deficits but anything helps.

Nothing is 100% effective, not even condoms.

The reality is that anyone can be bought, be it a government screener or a private screener. We see on a pretty regular basis stories of people who got guns or knives or other things through security. How many more people didn't say a thing and continued on with their life. How many people including children have been needlessly patted down or essentially groped for no good.

As bad as it is to say, we need to profile. That is the bottom line. There are lists that the multiple three letter agencies have that would give great insight as to who to check, who is connected with them, where they might fly out of etc. It would also put the focus on the higher threats, not spread it so thin the underwear and shoe bombers have a less risk of getting caught.

Private companies, IE the airlines are getting horrendously bad reputations thanks to security. The passengers show up pre-pissed off half the time, families are scrutinized, peoples personal privacy is severely invaded.

Now private security won't change all of this. There will still be rules and procedures to follow, but the tax payers will save major dollars, less government will be in our lives, private companies will be able to prosper and the correct amount of employees needed to complete the job will be there, not twice as many with half of them sitting around doing nothing or holding hands through the airport or watching the sporting events on the airport paid for TV.

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Private security just like MCO, MCI. I think SAC and ATL are also on the way to this.

Please for the love of god don't bring back Wackenhut and all the different security companies at every different airport. The ONLY thing good that TSA has done is at least 90% of the screeners actually speak English now.