That's because they're too busy feeling up people's junk to feel up the chunk of fake C4 strapped to a dude's back.

Can we just admit that TSA has been a grand failure of security, and a grand success story for the unions? and then dismiss them all and send them back from whence they came?

I R A Darth Aggie wrote:

'Can we just admit that TSA has been a grand failure of security, and a grand success story for the unions? and then dismiss them all and send them back from whence they came?'

No, we can't.

You forgot to list the billions of dollars of expenditure on dubious hardware and software purchasing of systems that are dubiously-effective at best and completely-ineffective at worst.

And of course, there's the simple, day-to-day expenditures of running an organization with better than 100,000 employees. The TSA has a budget in excess of $7.5 billion per year. A budget that big just impacts too many special interests, selling everything from uniforms to disposable gloves to temporary barriers.

The TSA will never be allowed to die, or really to shrink that much. Like a thousand other government programs, it's just become a cash cow and a livelihood for too many people. The original intention now matters very little. The purpose of the agency now is to pay salaries and buy stuff. Whether or not they actually deter any threat, really doesn't matter. This latest set of test results are just as bad as the last set, or the set before. Doesn't matter - in fact, these poor results will be used to lobby for bigger budgets, more people, more resources. Sure, a few mid-level apparatchiks will be re-assigned, maybe even an executive or two pensioned off early or 'fired' through the revolving door that is government employment at those levels. But you are going to be bothered and annoyed at the airport for the rest of your natural life, as will be your children, and their children.

Sorry.

llater,

llamas

We can't shut it down.

It's a government agency. It's never a failure. Nor is it an experiment because that implies temporary.

And it's unionized. Unless you want the union to strike another government department, you dare not shut down their cash cow.

Government agencies don't get shut down. You're still paying for the Depression-era USDA Rural Development Agency to provide people rural areas with utilities, housing, and an economy. 'cause, you know, it's the Third World out there beyond the neon lights.