Friday, December 23, 2011

Article: Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair


Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/12/tsa-insanity-201112

It's infuriating," he said, waving my fraudulent boarding pass to indicate the mass of waiting passengers, the humming X-ray machines, the piles of unloaded computers and cell phones on the conveyor belts, the uniformed T.S.A. officers instructing people to remove their shoes and take loose change from their pockets. "We're spending billions upon billions of dollars doing this—and it is almost entirely pointless. Not only is it not done right, but even if it was done right it would be the wrong thing to do."


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