The Transportation Security Administration has so far comprehensively failed in its first public test in the aftermath of the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253.
Alas, it's just the latest failure in the history of an awful decision to merge a group of agencies in response to the September 11 attacks.
It's not just the pathetic, and all-too-predictable, security theater response (Steve Bruce Schneier has a good initial take-down of this latest round of TSA feel-good-but-not-making-us-any-safer ridiculousness). We need to know how someone about whom there were credible warnings (including from his father) was apparently able to get on a plane to the United States.
Frankly, it's inexcusable. People must be held responsible.
Not letting people use laptops or read books or use the restroom in the last hour of a flight isn't going to make us more secure. The Obama Administration needs to do better. And quickly.
Note: Edited to correct the Bruce Schneier's name above. Thanks for catching that error, ZDR.
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