GOP report: TSA hasn’t improved aviation security

[alp227]

Source: Wash. Post

After a $56 billion federal investment in airline security, flying is no safer than it was before the Sept. 11, 2011, attacks and the bare hands of passengers might be the best defense once a terrorist gets on board, two members of Congress said Wednesday.

Deriding the Transportation Security Administration as a bloated bureaucracy that recruits security personnel with ads on gas pumps and pizza boxes, the two House Republicans said it needed to undergo almost a dozen reforms.

“Americans have spent nearly $60 billion, and they are no safer today than they were before 9/11,” said Rep. Paul C. Broun (R-Ga.). “We need to make travel safe in America, and right now it’s not.”

Broun joined House Transportation Committee Chairman John L. Mica (R-Fla.) at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday morning to present a harshly critical report on the TSA’s performance.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/commuting/gop-report-tsa-hasnt-improved-aviation-security/2011/11/16/gIQAvqRQSN_story.html

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Hmm...for once we can AGREE with Congressional Republicans? And after 10 years of Bush/GOP fearmongering about national security to justify our rights melting down at the airport, now this report proved the fearmongering a big fat waste of money?

[Kennah]

1. That's not true

No one has again crashed planes into the WTC.

[No Elephants]

12. How did TSA prevent that?

[Kennah]

15. Well, I mean, isn't that enough? Also, Jessie James has robbed no banks since 9/11

[blackspade]

14. ....

:eyes:

[Psephos]

2. The law of averages finally caught up...they're actually right. n/t

[Xithras]

20. Even a stopped clock... n/t

[Old and In the Way]

3. Now if we could only rid ourselves of that other facist institution Bush created, Homeland Security.

Where was all of the republican outrage when Bush grew our federal government with these useless institutions?

[Major Nikon]

4. Irrational fear

If you factor out 2001, more people die in the US from deer attacks than from terrorist attacks. Yet we spend trillions on the so-called "War on Terror". Imagine how many more lives could have been saved if we had made roads safer, or invested in cancer treatment and prevention, or done dozens of other things that would have cost 1% of what we've spent.

[seafan]

5. John Mica wants to privatize the groping and irradiating. So, he badmouths the TSA in the meantime.

It's all about the $$$$$.


This guy is another disgrace from Florida.

[bbgrunt]

8. I am sure there is a devious agenda involved in

republicans touting such a report--they must have a strategy to redirect that money into their exclusive hands....although I agree that the actions of this department is nothing more than staged theater.

[Rochester]

6. Funny how the bastards wouldn't say anything like this when W. was president, eh?

[Populist_Prole]

7. You beat me to it!

I was going to say that I'l bet that during W's presidency, "the GOP" would have waxed enthusiastic about the TSA's role in air travel safety.

They MADE the beast, NOW they want to starve it. Uh huh.

[SoapBox]

9. Hilarious...and correct.

There are holes all over in the airport security.

The crap before the gates, is a whole bunch of "show".

[doc03]

10. That sounds like BS to me, has there been a successful terrorist

incident in the US since 9/11/2001?

[Kaleko]

17. CheneyCo needed only one of these events,

and thanks you very much for your continued support of the nursery rhymes from NIST.

[JoeyT]

18. Self-delete

I think I completely misread what you were saying.

[truthisfreedom]

11. A broken clock is more precisely correct twice a day than the most accurate time piece on earth.

That being said, I smell a rat. Obviously they intend to privatize and make security even more intrusive.

[No Elephants]

13. OMG! Someone carrying only a three ounce bottle of shampoo can still be a threat?

[left on green only]

16. Why don't they use editors anymore?

The original article as reproduced above, references the attacks of Sept. 11, 2011; and I was reading it and thinking to myself, whaaaaaaaaaaaaat are they talking about? Did I miss something? And I mean this is not just an isolated incident. News media everywhere I see on the internet has been proliferated with total garbage that must be the result of zero editing practices. I guess no one has the time or concern anymore to make sure they have it correct before they spew their 'diarrhea of the mouth' upon a confused public who is trying to make coherent sense out of the whatever it is that they wish to enlighten us with. I have lost track of the number of times I have read and re-read sentences that just don't make any sense from lack of anyone having first read them and checked them for coherency before they were committed to whatever media it was that they polluted. I guess the grueling pace of "instantaneous cool" now far exceeds the need to actually say anything in this totally fucked up (excuse my French) society that we live in. :shrug:

[BumRushDaShow]

19. Most media laid off their editors to increase profits. n/t