Airport Insecurity

You probably guessed this already: airport screeners are so busy confiscating water bottles that they are letting actual (test) bombs through.

Of course, there’s a TSA attempt at spinning the situation:

“We don’t discuss the results because they tend to paint an inaccurate picture of the competency of our work force,” she said. “The tests are designed to be incredibly difficult and TSA does anticipate a fair level of failure.”

Apparently they believe actual terrorists will be less adept at hiding their bombs than their testers.

It’s too bad that this wasn’t an isolated incident, but this sort of story has cropped up a few times at other airports.

Airport security is mostly there to give the appearance of safety. If more people understand that it’s largely smoke & mirrors, then maybe we’ll get rid of the facade and stop enduring the hassles.