Forbes: Someone Stop Them: The Billion Dollar Boondoggle of TSA

Forbes: Someone Stop Them: The Billion Dollar Boondoggle of TSA

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I flew out of Orlando over the weekend. The airport was empty, the security line enormous. I waited over an hour. I watched a TSA officer screen one woman’s bag eleven times. Surely, it was that eleventh pass that made me safer.​

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No surprise, I counted over 500 people in line with me and was probably no more than halfway through the line when I got bored and gave up.​

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But to what end?​

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For starters, there have been numerous studies questioning TSA ability to make us safer. The data here is endless. Check out these transcripts from a recent Jonathon Corbett interview with a former TSA screener named “Jennifer.”​

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Good to see this in Forbes a good mainstream publication. Should reach a lot of readers.