Another Day, Another Embarrassment For TSA

[JABBS]

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A West Virginia airport terminal was evacuated for more than nine hours Thursday after two bottles of liquid twice falsely tested positive as liquid explosives.

How could the TSA come up with two false positives? And that begs the follow-up: Should airline passengers be nervous that other false positives will occur, or worse, real liquid explosives won't be detected?

[pinto]

1. No defense of the TSA by a long shot, but in general, false positives

are less of a concern than false negatives.

In medical screening, when running controls, they run known positives looking for false negative readings as well as vica versa. To be blunt, while false positives can be a pain, false negatives, as you say, are a problem.

I have no clue who does their screening, but I hope it's in the hands of someone with some technical experience and not another TSA political crony appointment :grr:

[JABBS]

3. here's the problem

Our government has said it can't yet test for liquid explosives?

Why was this woman in particular stopped? Her bottles of liquid were no different than anyone else's.

[pinto]

4. Yeah. Quien sabe?

[leftofthedial]

2. THE ENTIRE "WAR" ON "TERROR" is a false positive

we might as well have a "war" on jaywalking, which is a more real and immediate threat for most Americans.