USA Today: Tests show no screening improvements post-Sept. 11. At screening checkpoints, the memo reads, ”only the opaque object (such as a film bag) were routinely caught.” Guns passed through in 30% of tests, knives went unnoticed 70% of the time, and screeners failed to detect simulated explosives in 60% of tests.
But everybody and his uncle has a story about getting pulled into a windowless room and interrogated for forgetting about a pair of nail clippers.
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