1) A more exhaustive list of faults can be found at wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration#Criticisms_and_scandals http:

1) A more exhaustive list of faults can be found at wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration#Criticisms_and_scandals http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_Security_Adminis...) 2) The liquids threat has been overblown; there are doubts that they pose a significant threat and in the 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot (which was going to be supposedly carried out with liquids) the plotters were arrested on the ground days before any attack was to occur. To reiterate, they were arrested by old fashioned police work, not airport screening procedures. >> You clearly have your own list of steps the TSA could have taken - I'm wondering what they are? The best thing to do would be to scale back the focus on the TSA and spend the money on better policing and intelligence work.