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Friday, July 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Propped up by a culture of fear, TSA has become a bureaucracy with too much power and little accountability. Where will the lunacy stop?
By Patrick Smith

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  • Thursday, July 10, 2008 08:49 PM

    Who are you?

    Patirick, I actually enjoy your harping and agree with everything you say about the TSA. I used to be a pilot slogging my way through the process too. But remember one very important reality. Even as pilots, our identity to TSA "strangers" is not reliable yet and so they are forced to mis-trust everyone. Until you get the TWIC (Transportation Workers Idenitfication Card) which promises to be accepted by the system as a valid check of your true identity, then you'll be going through this for a long time. Me? I'm "retired" and no longer have to suffer the idignity of being a suspected terrorist 777 Captain.

    —Steve Filson Read Steve Filson's other letters

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