Commie rag or not, the NYT is a reputable source. If you choose to discount it, then find a source of your own that proves what you say. Failure to do so will be taken as further evidence that you are just a loud-mouthed blowhard.
I will repeat:
The 911 attacks did not occur because Americans have too much freedom and too few airport screeners.
They occurred because terrorists were able to gain access to the cockpits of hijacked aircraft.
Instead of retrofitting all commercial aircraft with doors which could actually be used to keep terrorists out of cockpits, Washington created an Orwellian monster named the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and hired tens of thousands of minimum-wage Gestapo to root through the underwear of airline passengers.
Simply setting foot in an airport is now considered to be a terrorist act.
The fact that the TSA created a national airport police force without ever addressing the cockpit door scandal is damning evidence that their mandate has nothing to do with protecting anyone.
Their true purpose is to turn America into a police state.
And airports are their incubators.
The statists want to condition us to accept the idea that probable cause is dead and they can search our houses, our hard drives and our persons and demand to see our papers at any time.
Airport screeners are the Brown Shirts of our day.
They are the enemy.