The municipalities where airports are located are responsible for the security, whether it is baggage handling or vetting passengers. Until they are trained and trained well, we are going to have these problems.
The hardest thing for us to realize is that although we know that further attacks are planned, there is nothing we can do because we don't have the necessary information to abort them.
All we have is a lot of "If's, ands and maybe's". Intelligence is not a precise "science" because it is based on rumour and innuendo. We put unnecessary burdens on the law enforcement personnel in this country simply by expecting them to know who, what, where, when and how. We have got to stop that and let them do there jobs the best way that they can.
They hearings that have been going on are nothing but "Dog and Pony" shows to appease the constituency of the senators and representatives in Congress. The only thing we needed to know was that the government was aware that something was going to happen, which they did, but as we have found out a great expense they didn't when or where.
Intelligence is based on gossip and rumour and you have to sift through the chaff to find the truth and when you are dealing with people - particulary a culture that is so totally different from yours - it is difficult to say the least.