{"id":8192,"date":"2005-04-28T15:36:16","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T22:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/04\/28\/color-me-shocked.html"},"modified":"2005-04-28T15:36:16","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T22:36:16","slug":"color_me_shocke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/04\/28\/color_me_shocke.html","title":{"rendered":"Color me shocked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I sure feel safer, don’t you?<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week, reports from several government departments confirmed what most business travelers and other frequent fliers already knew: after spending more than $5 billion in federal funds on the [TSA], airport security is hardly any better now than it was before 9\/11.<\/p>\n

Created to impose tight federal control over commercial airport security after the 2001 terrorist attacks, the agency continues to get failing or barely passing grades. Covert screening tests by the Government Accountability Office and the inspector general for the Department of Homeland Security showed virtually no improvement in overall screener performance since similarly poor performance reviews last year, said Representative John L. Mica, the Florida Republican who is chairman of the House aviation subcommittee.<\/p>\n

“Over the last three and a half years, we have spent billions of dollars creating a Soviet-style centralized bureaucracy that has resulted in great inefficiencies and inflexibility, with little improvement in screener effectiveness,” Mr. Mica, a long-time critic of the agency, said in a statement last week.<\/p>\n

In its reply, the agency said that it needed more money to improve performance with better technology, like new machines for detection of explosives.<\/p>\n

*sigh*<\/p>\n

Now, based on my experiences in Denver, I would say that DIA TSA personnel are generally more competent and civil than the lowest-bidder quack security folks we had pre-TSA. (Not sure I’d say the same about the LAX security folks, though.) Far worse than the personnel, though, are the screwball restrictions (and vague, local, “Whatever I say, goes” overriding restriction) on baggage contents. I think that, more than the personnel themselves, is what’s torqued most folks off, and opened TSA to the most ridicule.<\/p>\n

Feh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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