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It wouldn't be a nation wide organisation. Mistakes in one airport wouldn't spread to the others.

• JackCh 8y ago
  Not unless they decide to form a consortium to organize/cooperate with each other, perhaps motivated by a desire to reduce their liability. What would prevent the nominally independent security teams at LAX, ORD, LGA, etc from freely sharing their "intel" with one another? I really doubt you could sell the public on legislation that banned LAX security from talking to ORD security. An airport security consortium of nominally independent security departments may end up being little better than the TSA. (I'd speculate that it could even be worse, but that seems dangerously close to defending the TSA and that makes me feel ill.)
• mrguyorama 8y ago
  Not mistakes as much as apathy. The TSA gets tested, and when it fails, it doesn't care.
• freehunter 8y ago
  I travel for work constantly and I can tell you right now every airport has their own security rules, even different TSA employees have their own rules. And they're all flexible when they need to be. Before I had pre-check, I was swabbed and run through a metal detector because the line was backing up too long. Now that I have pre-check, sometimes my laptop has to come out, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes my watch has to come off, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes my medically-required syringe and bottle of liquid is acceptable, sometimes I have to argue with them. Sometimes the metal detector randomly selects people for advanced screening. Sometimes I forget that my phone is in my pocket and wonder if the metal detector is even turned on since it didn't beep. TSA does not follow a single set of rules. They make it all up as they go along, and the rules change day-to-day.