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The path to safer air travel

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By Doug Hagmann 19 November 2010: The national “opt out” day next Wednesday was created to protest body scanners and enhanced TSA pat downs at airports. While it illustrates passenger dissatisfaction about the intrusive and humiliating security procedures and constitutional issues, it does nothing to fix the gaping security holes we have at our airports. Amid the outcries and protests, it is rarely pointed out that there has never been a instance where the Transportation Security Administration has ever stopped or thwarted a potential terror attack against our airlines. Not one. Furthermore, most security analysts agree that the so-called naked body scanners “would probably have not” detected the explosives carried aboard flight 253 by the would be Christmas Day 2009 bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...continue to full post

Full post as published by Northeast Intelligence Network on November 19, 2010 (boomark / email).