>It was part of his CIA training to be able to do that. In the '90s, long before 9/11, I was traveling with a girlfriend. She didn't want to remove her belt w

>It was part of his CIA training to be able to do that. In the '90s, long before 9/11, I was traveling with a girlfriend. She didn't want to remove her belt with a big metal buckle so she just went through the metal detector with it on. The machine buzzed and the agent sent her through again. A female agent looked sympathetic and told her to twist her belt buckle horizontally so it wouldn't set off the machine. That was my intro to security theater. Moral of the story is that if you're a pretty white girl, you don't need CIA training to learn security secrets from lazy guards.