new security measures by TSA

Travelers as a group are too compliant of these dopey TSA rules. As long as we continue to dutifully pack our toothpaste in Glad bags and wait an hour in security lines nothing will change.

 

I could get on board with a little anarchy.

 

Exactly.

And the TSA is nothing more than a bunch of jumped-up self-important rent-a-cops, from what I've seen at the airports. They might have other people around who are actually competent, but the people in the blue shirts? Eh, whatever. I feel like I'm more competent to handle a terrorist than any of them are.

 

Napolitano is chiming in? Well, that means it'll come out next that Canada was involved. :

 

Not true. Inasmuch as the TSA is responsible for the no-fly list, it is involved, if indirectly, with that decision.

It certainly does seem as though the guy should at least have been subject to secondary screening. Why that didn't happen should be one of the primary questions.

And while he did begin his journey in Nigeria, he was subject to security in Amsterdam as well. There's no way someone's getting on a plane to the U.S. having only gone through Nigerian airport security.

 

Exacty wrong. I can't speak about it due to ecurity concerns but none of what you just said is completely or exacly true.

 

You're not the only one who's worked for an airline.

I know a lot more about how the system works besides the obvious -- which has been discussed publicly -- dress code issues which have made identifying agents easier than it should be.

 

Huh....wonder if they have intelligence that something may happen from there.

 

Good news. Hope it extends to in country U.S. flights.

 

That they've gone to this level of security is absurd. Not because it is or isn't necessary, but because it's completely unsustainable. There is simply no way that a permanent ban on carry-ons will stick, and there is simply no way that they can do a patdown search of every single passenger and have three-hour security lines from now until the end of time.

Eventually, things will go back to 'normal'. And because that will happen eventually, it might as well happen now. Anyone who might have been plotting something will know this, and will simply sit back and wait for the hysteria to die down.