instead of “safety theater”: incompetence.
SHOT: Chris Christie defends TSA, says getting blown up is ‘inconvenient.’
CHASER: “The Department of Homeland Security said Monday that the acting administrator for the Transportation Security Administration would be reassigned, following a report that airport screeners failed to detect explosives and weapons in nearly every test that an undercover team conducted at dozens of airports. According to a report based on an internal investigation, ‘red teams’ with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General were able to get banned items through the screening process in 67 out of 70 tests it conducted across the nation.”
There is no excuse for a “conservative” defending a program that demonstrably is failing. The joke is that the TSA, with its many failures, is safety theater – all show and no go. I’ve been through those lines hundreds of times – seriously, what terrorist or someone bent on malfeasance is going to bother going through that? If a point has been hardened, there are plenty of easier ways to “make a statement”.
Which is, pretty much, what Christie did – just made a statement. (H/T: Instapundit)