Boxcutters are banned. How, may I ask, is the President of the United States and his National Security Adviser going to ensure that airport screeners Jane Wilson and John Smith are doing their job carefully enough right this very moment at, say, Providence, Rhode Island Airport?
Should Condi Rice be out there re-inspecting each bag?
The security personnel were a disaster waiting to happen, with a good possibility that they might have been working with the 9/11 terrorists.
We are in agreement. They are still a disaster. And who put the airports screener's "Union Rights" over competency in the recent Homeland Security debate?
The Democrats .
Do I make my position clear enough?
Apparently not.
At a minimum, when Rice knew of the heightened terrorist threats prior to 9/11, she should have ensured that the airlines were notified and that the airlines were acting at a much higher security level.
BTW - William Webster (who Harvey Pitt named to chairmanship of special SEC commission), former CIA and FBI director, was hired in the 1990s by the airline industry to lobby AGAINST proposed federal laws to strength airport security.
Webster was successful.