More On The Absolute Bullshit Security At Airports
Joe Sharkey writes at The New York Times about the pathetic "security" where there's nobody watching (where there's no "theater" like there is at the TSA); and that's behind the scenes at the airports, where the baggage handlers and others work.

As I've said, vis a vis thefts from baggage by baggage handlers at JFK and countless other airports, if you can take something out, you can put something in:

"The current state of background investigations for airport employees is really a glaring vulnerability," said Sean M. Bigley, a lawyer who specializes in security clearances and investigations. "Most people are under the erroneous impression that someone with an access badge to a secure area to an airport has undergone an extensive background investigation. That is not the case."

Mr. Bigley suggested that workers in secure areas -- from burger-flippers at a McDonald's in a terminal to ramp agents with direct access to airplanes -- undergo the same kinds of background checks, depending on job category, as federal employees.

And everyday vigilance clearly must improve. Take the Delta baggage handler charged with bringing guns into a secure area of the Atlanta airport and passing them to the man accused of being the smuggler, who had already cleared checkpoint security and could easily carry the weapons in his backpack onto airplanes. On numerous occasions that coincided with known dates of gun-smuggling, that employee (since fired by Delta) was in restricted airport areas even on his days off, according to an affidavit.