I honestly don't understand what the motive for the TSA is. I mean, yes it's security theater and political "we must do something" in action, but it doesn't see

I honestly don't understand what the motive for the TSA is. I mean, yes it's security theater and political "we must do something" in action, but it doesn't seem like that's enough to justify the continued stupidly of that organization. The best guess I have at this point is that the combination of a convenient jobs program that isn't republican kryptonite, plus convenient pork projects (hello body scanners), with the added bonus of a perpetual excuse to eliminate personal freedoms and drum up the boogeyman man of terrorism whenever it's convenient is just too tempting to let go.