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How Completely Stupid Is The TSA?
Complete dumbassery in what is and isn't banned, via "The TSA's 12 Banned Items of Christmas," via Reason TV:

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Airline employees smuggling guns by simply bypassing the TSA security check:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/23/us/delta-employee-gun-smuggling/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at December 23, 2014 11:49 PM

Thanks -- blogged about that here (though this link you posted is a much more comprehensive story than I linked):

http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/12/23/breaching_the_s.html

Let's be clear: TSA is about pretense of security.

Amy Alkon at December 24, 2014 4:59 AM

I have seen this fellow before, he was working in the Local burger joint.

Fred Mallison at December 24, 2014 7:04 AM

Amy, you have NO idea. Nine years ago, I was the number two guy in the TSA IT test unit. One of my jobs was testing the "training laptops" used to train screeners in the field. It showed typical baggage scans, the job of screeners was to find the bomb, knife, or gun shape in the image.

Default setting for a passing score was 32%....

Keith Glass at December 24, 2014 8:30 AM

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https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2014/12/how-completely.html#comment-5694738">comment from Keith Glass

Thanks, Keith.

Amy Alkon at December 24, 2014 10:14 AM

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