Boyd Consulting on the TSA

The biggest thing about the Orlando guy is that he is/was a CSA for the company. Allegedly, he took the bag of guns and drugs into the secure area during his regularly scheduled shift. He hid the bag somewhere, and picked it up on the way to his flight out.

My question is, how does this new directive address that. Yes if you end your shift you have to go out and go through security. That's great, and I have no problem with it. Yes they may do random checks in the secure area. I am in no way saying that everybody should have to go though screening. I just think that this is typical TSA, day late and a dollar short.
 
flyover said:
The main problem with 9/11 was we didn't have a clue there were morons like this coming after us.
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Uh. . . "we" didn't have a clue?

Some of us did. . . I know it's easy to play the "well - no one spoke up" (ignoring the fact that a number of people DID speak up) card now after the fact, but come on. You really think that no one in either the Clinton, or Bush administration's felt strongly that the worldwide terrorist network would NEVER attack us on our homeland?

Wake up. A number of strategic centers, intelligence organizations (both US, and UK, and even AUS) had evidence that such an attack was being planned. Granted, no one knew when the HELL it would happen. But please, do not show such ignorance concerning such a disastrous act.

It amazes me that people can still make such a wide generalization about the threat - perhaps it makes it easier to live with by saying "no one saw it coming."

Time to wake up.
 
surreal1221 said:
Uh. . . "we" didn't have a clue?

Some of us did. . . I know it's easy to play the "well - no one spoke up" (ignoring the fact that a number of people DID speak up) card now after the fact, but come on. You really think that no one in either the Clinton, or Bush administration's felt strongly that the worldwide terrorist network would NEVER attack us on our homeland?

Wake up. A number of strategic centers, intelligence organizations (both US, and UK, and even AUS) had evidence that such an attack was being planned. Granted, no one knew when the HELL it would happen. But please, do not show such ignorance concerning such a disastrous act.

It amazes me that people can still make such a wide generalization about the threat - perhaps it makes it easier to live with by saying "no one saw it coming."

Time to wake up.
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All good points. In my defense I'm responding to a poster who is advocating going back to sleep because they'll never do it again.

By "we" I mean the aviation people. I think it's fair to say we were stunned. And it was disheartning to find out what some agencies knew before the fact.

Imagine if crews and passengers had the kind of knowledge then that they have today. All would have been fighting for their lives from the start. Maybe even having the moxie to spot these guys as suspicious before the flights departed.

In that context I'll stick by my original statement. "We" didn't have a clue about these morons.
 
My incident was before the MCO gun guy, FWIW.

I have some stories about Michael Boyd that have been passed down to me from my parents that worked with him at a small commuter when he was the Director of Marketing.
 
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