There’s also the risk of civil litigation – even if they could legally prove that they did everything the TSA does and more, at a better quality, the costs involved in such a trial, the PR hits, and losses due to everything else tallies up to the TSA being the primary choice.Mack...
but prohibited anyway. The most likely reason is the primary mission of the DHS and TSA, to avoid any blame if the screener got it wrong and the pipes turned out to be a threat. I’m sure the passenger would readily agree that
It is perhaps foolish to predict how the T.S.A. will respond this time—when they have relaxed rules in the past, they have done so quietly, rather than in response to some acute public backlash. But caution aside, I would be surprised if the new procedures survived much past the New ...
This is the primary reason the TSA has no credibility – they insist on security through obfuscation. “Trust us, we know what we’re doing, but we can’t explain it to you, for reasons we can’t divulge”.Ian Holmes • July 30, 2007 11:11 AM “Imagine for a moment that TSA ...