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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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  • Friday, July 11, 2008 06:40 AM

    TSA personnel improvements

    Giving TSA people new uniforms and badges has got to be the best example yet of putting lipstick on a pig.

    But cheer up! TSA is apparently now drawing its screeners from a better class of applicants. For instance, when I went through recently, the first guy checked my boarding pass, handed it back, and said, "Do you want fries with that?" Then I went over to the metal detector and the guy there said, "Welcome to WalMart."

    Keep up the good work, Patrick. Someday you will reach someone who can figure out how to get accountability back from this government.

    —ualbill Read ualbill's other letters

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