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Originally Posted by khalleron
Heh. Believe me, if the TSA had EVER caught a terrorist, they'd be shouting it to the rafters.
Considering how frequently 'suspected threats' are announced to the news media, if there were a REAL threat or capture, we'd know about it.
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This. Very much this.
Every terrorist attack dealing with planes has either been caught beforehand due to police work (the liquid bombers in london) or made it all the way through the grope line and set their crotches on fire on the plane itself. Couple that with all of the reports of experts and non-experts getting stuff past the TSA and it's patently obvious that the TSA's security theater does nothing but bunch up people in giant queues that would be attractive to terrorist bombers who wouldn't even have to go through the TSA grope line to cause massive damage.
There's a reason Israeli airports don't have massive security lines, after all.