I didn't realize they have stopped looking for bombs.
Kindly provide a citation and proof, please.
I am sure you can't. It is just you exaggerating things again due to your experiencces that are not like the vast majority of law-abiding American citizens.
HOMELAND INSECURITY: "Mr. bin Laden, you're clear to fly"
Imagine if the world's most notorious fugitive, Osama bin Laden, attempted to board an airliner in the United States. Suppose he were clean-shaven, sporting short hair, wearing a pinstriped business suit and looked like so many other travelers that no suspicions were raised. How far might he get?
If he used aliases such as names of family members, he would be nabbed instantly and whisked away for questioning. That's because many of his relatives are on the FBI's secret "no-fly list," according to intelligence sources.
But suppose he boldly decided to use his own name. Would he be cleared to fly? Insight recently learned that scenario was tested at a U.S. airport in the South during January. The result was troubling: America's most-wanted fugitive is cleared to fly.
According to airline-security documents obtained by this magazine, the name Osama bin Laden was punched into the computer by an airline official and, remarkably, that name was cleared at the security checkpoint all passengers must pass through before being issued a boarding pass.
The realization that Osama bin Laden made the cut sent shivers down the spines of airline-security officials who discovered the system gap.
"When the most-wanted man in modern history is not included on the list of possible terrorists there are some serious deficiencies in the system which need to be addressed," says an airport-security official familiar with the test.
In fact, Insight has learned from law-enforcement sources that at least two other names of known terrorists cleared security checkpoints when officials punched them into the computer.
I am sure that I am not the only Freeper than can tell about personal experiences with the TSA.
Let me use this simple episode as an example:
If you have had any military experience with explosives, even something as powerful as C4 will take up some physical space.
On my last trip to Cozumel, I packaged my underwear in clear plastic bags. Sucking out the air, it compressed into a nice little package only 1/4 inch thick.
Any idiot could see at a glance that it would be impossible for C4 explosives and a triggering device to be contained in that clear plastic bag of underwear.
What did the TSA do?
Oh, and this was AFTER my bags went through the X-ray machine and was swabbed for nitrate residue.
Hmmmm, were they actually looking for a bomb?
Good thing they never located my super secret, 1/4 inch thick nuclear bomb that I was smuggling to Mexico!