Remember folks.................The Director of the airport at the time (now replaced) got the position by political backscratching (typical of Taxachusetts politics) and had no clue or experience on how to either run an airport or provide security for one.
"...and had no clue or experience on how to either run an airport or provide security for one." He's just another in a LONG line of incompetent, cynical opportunists who have been busily emasculating America and making her weak and vulnerable to attack ... on many fronts ... for YEARS.
This could never have happened without the help and consent of those Marx identified as "useful idiots", and Barnum described as "suckers".