There are plenty of screw-ups in the screening every day. Part of the problem is poorly trained personel and sometimes people that should never be given any authority at all. To be fair, most of the screeners do pretty well at the job given the criteria change more often than people change socks. Considering the volume of passengers screened every day the process is more or less working but you'll continue to hear about absurdities occurring simply because the entire system is a cludge job from the beginning that leaves absolutely no room for situational judgement. The screeners get the blame primarily because they're the ones out front and visible to the public day after day.
Originally Posted by bubba
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