post 911 airport security barely improved dispite big $$$ spent

[paisley]

suprise suprise...

NY Times - More Baggage Taboos, but Little Security Enhancement

"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.

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

BIll Maher's got a great riff on airport security. 2001 material here. His basic complaint is that something like this is really not something you want going to the lowest bidder. And that Americans seem to like being dumb, as a matter of procedure.