Debra Burlingame makes some solid points regarding TSA checkpoint screening. During a flurry of recent holiday travel, I also took note of TSA’s reaction to the underwear bomber, jotting down some observations while waiting in the infinite airport security lines. The bureaucratic suck that is TSA seems to have removed the vital human element from checkpoint screening. Critics call it profiling, I call it instinct. When Richard Reid practiced for his eventual failed shoe bombing on an El-Al flight, something about him gave Israeli screeners the creeps. Said Israeli Sky Marshall Schlomo Dror of Reid:

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