>> "...the original plan was that the TSA would set some rules and make the airports comply with them..." The TSA was created solely to transfer liability from

>> "...the original plan was that the TSA would set some rules and make the airports comply with them..." The TSA was created solely to transfer liability from the airlines to the government in order to prevent the airlines from being sued into oblivion after 9/11. As nice side effects, it trains the population to accept the trappings of the police state and to disregard the sanctity of the 4th Amendment while proliferating bureaucracy. But the main purpose is corporate welfare for commercial passenger aviation.