A news story at Breitbart.com, "Airport in Minneapolis Fails 95 Percent of Security Tests," talks about a recent security test of the TSA there and the pathetic performance of the operation. While I cannot dispute the data and conclusions, the false assumption is that the purpose of the TSA is to provide transportation security.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  Certainly, if the screeners confiscate a loaded gun or jumbo-sized toothpaste tube, it's not a bad thing.  But that's not the high-level purpose of the TSA. Did you know that in 2016, the TSA screened 738,318,264 passengers, according to their year in review article?  That is over twice the population of the U.S.  From what figures I can find, it appears they have screened about nine billion passengers since 9/11.  Those are just passengers flying in the U.S.  Other countries have similar jumbo toothpaste investigative operations with even more hundreds of...(Read Full Post)