Airline screeners fail government bomb tests - Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit - MSNBC.com

Airline screeners fail government bomb tests - Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit - MSNBC.com:

Government sources tell NBC News that federal investigators recently were able to carry materials needed to make a similar homemade bomb through security screening at 21 airports.

In all 21 airports tested, no machine, no swab, no screener anywhere stopped the bomb materials from getting through. Even when investigators deliberately triggered extra screening of bags, no one discovered the materials.

Yeah. In 21 trials of the new, uber-safe security measures, feds defeated the highly-trained security personnel and their high-tech gadgets 21 times. Let me put this another way:

Anti-terrorism: 0
Fake Terrorists: 21

So think of that when you're taking off your shoes and belt and surrendering your tweezers just to board the aircraft, grandma. The latest indignity to befall you at the hands of King George is completely and utterly

w o r t h l e s s !