95% failure rate in airline security system.

It is one thing to institute a system that appears to be important to airline passenger safety and it is quite another to actually have the system perform effectively.

June 2, 2015

...Officials (click here) close to the secretary said the decision was made based on the findings in the Homeland Security Inspector General’s report, in which a series of tests were conducted by the department's Red Teams who pose as passengers. It found that TSA agents failed 67 out of 70 tests, with Red Team members repeatedly able to get potential weapons through checkpoints, according to officials briefed on the report. 

In one case, agents failed to detect a fake explosive taped to an agent’s back, even after performing a pat down that was prompted after the agent set off the magnetometer alarm, according to officials briefed on the report....

Part of this is a culture problem but some of the results is an effective assault by the security agencies carrying out the tests. The assuring aspect of this news is that the tests actually detected failures. That is a good thing.

You know what is really interesting? The problems that beset the USA in detecting potential dangers to citizens doesn't work in a very real way. The NSA program doesn't work and now the TSA is looking like a failure as well. I need to have a question answered.

"When these national security systems were dreamed up were they tested before they were instituted?" 

See, it looks more like the systems of our National Security State was about employment and wealth than about a security system that matters. 

The culture of fear following the attacks of September 11, 2001 really served many purposes of basically flunky Republican economics. Didn't it? 

That brings me to my next statement. The Republicans are bent out of shape over the National Debt (not deficit) for far different reasons than the average citizen of the USA. The citizen sees a national debt that undermines their children's future (that may or may not be true in sincere context), but, Republican fear mongers see money locked out of their reach to create an economy paid for by the very tax payers that works for a living. 

The challenge to the Republican electorate that sincerely cares about the reasons they carry the banner of a national problem is to find the truth behind the banner and whether or not it is really a problem. It is better to conduct early intervention in seeking the truth rather than burden the Supreme Court with decisions that assault our democracy.