by Dr. Roger I. Roots
Back in 2003, I authored a peer-reviewed article entitled “Terrorized Into Absurdity: The Creation of the Transportation Security Administration.” See here. (Scroll down.) I predicted that the TSA (which was brand new at that time) would cost 6 times more than the private-screening efforts that had previously operated at America’s airports, and that the TSA would NOT make air travel appreciably safer.
Now it has come out that the TSA–which now costs MORE THAN TEN TIMES MORE than private-sector alternatives–produces a 95 percent failure rate. See here.
