the whole administration is a joke. Nevertheless you don’t expose security flaws to your enemies.
What would create public confidence in the TSA is evidence that it is frank and honest in admitting its weaknesses when they are exposed, and diligent in effecting the necessary remedies.
People seem to think our enemies need us to expose security flaws. They don't. Any terrorist planner worth a teaspoon of camel crap would notice such flaws--they'd stick out like a sore thumb amidst all the theater for the sheep.
Our nemeses are not stupid, despite the fact that a number of their tactical elements have proven inept (How many suicide bombers show up for practice?).
The planners are waay sharper, and they also recognize that whether an individual operation is a 'booming' success or not, it will cause the targeted population to change its behaviour--precisely the objective, more so than death and destruction, the reaction to a threat will be enough.
Since 9/11, the amount of ridiculous violation of the Rights of the average American is stunning. They don't have to destroy America, our 'protectors' and their apologists are doing it for them.