What Happened to Improved Airline Security?
by Steve OK, explain this to me. First, Bush didnt want a Department of Homeland Security at all. Then, after Democrats pushed him into it, he said he strongly supported it but the security needs of the country required that no one with civil service protection work there so that management had the ultimate flexibility to (supposedly) get things done. Since he demagoged his way past the 2002 midterm elections on that phony issue, he has had things exactly the way he wanted them with regards to homeland security; a handpicked management team, little interference from federal employee unions, and whatever money he has asked for. And what do we have to show for it? Well, we find out late last night that someone was able to leave box cutters and fake bomb making equipment in the restrooms of two Southwest Airline flights, one originating in Texas, and one from Florida (interesting), in an attempt to demonstrate the gaps in screening. We find that the Feds admit that security is still weak,
