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I have no interest in finding a source to counter the NYTs. Believe it if you want but don't expect me to.

You have no information that the cockpit doors were not opened by the pilots or that stronger doors would have mattered. From the information that is available it appears the hijackers gained access by killing passengers until the pilots opened the doors. Since previous hijackers merely wanted the planes to go to Cuba or some other place there was no belief that they would use the planes as weapons. Thus, the result would have likely been the same had the doors been as secure as bank vaults. In other words, you are proposing a false dichotomy.

Tell it to the terrorist in L.A. who killed two people in the airport. However, to the thinking portion of the population there is no doubt that some type of screening is now necessary to prevent further attacks.

With no screening even your beloved doors could not stop a nutcase from getting on the plane with a bomb or a exploding shoe. You are proposing no screening? It is obvious to those without an anti-State agenda that the terrorists on 9/11 would not have been stopped by stronger doors if the pilots would have just opened them believing that would stop passengers from being killed. Now is a different matter.

However, I support the Israeli method of airport security which uses screeners and air marshalls. Many of those you are libelling who work for TSA are air marshalls not screeners.

Apparently you are unaware of what the Brown Shirts were if you believe the TSA employees are their equivalents. It is just silly rhetoric which convinces no one.