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It's there a source for this? I find it hard to believe that some idiot hadn't tried to bring something onboard in the past 15 years.
by niij 10y ago
It's there a source for this? I find it hard to believe that some idiot hadn't tried to bring something onboard in the past 15 years.
- huffmsa 10y agoThey have and they succeeded, the shoe bomber guy and the guy who set his scrotum on fire.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoHow is the shoe-bomber-guy a TSA success story?
- huffmsa 10y agoHe's not. Those two are really the only AQ tied incidents since 9/11 and they waltzed right past the TSA.
- realityking 10y agoFWIW the shoe-bomber boarded his flight in Paris. Hard to blame the TSA for not stopping him.
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- anubisresources 10y agoPeople have forgotten guns and knives in their luggage that TSA has confiscated, and TSA proudly advertises those numbers. What is noticeably absent is information about any attacks TSA has thwarted. Of course it's possible some attacks have been prevented by deterrence but I doubt that as TSA has a 95℅ failure rate detecting explosives and other weapons[1]. [1] http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-us-airports-allowed-weapons-through-n367851 http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-u... Slate has another article from 2010 you might enjoy http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/11/does_the_tsa_ever_catch_terrorists.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/20...
- 15thandwhatever 10y agoI don't get why we hold TSA to a higher standard than what they are: security guards. Security guards don't go trumpeting how many bank robberies they've thwarted, because they simply don't know. However, they will tell you about all the contraband they've confiscated simply because that's measurable.
- huffmsa 10y agoThe TSA has to justify its obscene budget and perpetual scandal. Their justification is that they stop hundreds of bits of contraband (of which they control the definition) daily in the ongoing war on terror.
- LukaAl 10y agoNo actually when the department of Homeland security conducted an undercover test, TSA detected the whopping number of 3 undercover agents... They failed to detect the other 67 who were able to embark planes with weapons end explosives[0]. But that's just a detail... You know, these agents were instructed to avoid TSA screening. Who trains to do that in the real world, right? [sarcasm] [0] http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find-widespread-security-failures/story?id=31434881 http://abcnews.go.com/US/exclusive-undercover-dhs-tests-find...
- jasonkostempski 10y agoIdiots bringing things on planes, by accident or on purpose, doesn't make them terrorists.