While I’m waiting at my gate for my 10 PM flight, I’d thought I’d look up this interesting story. Federal air marshals, flying under cover on random flights, have been giving themselves away by the procedures they use to bypass airport security checkpoints. Seems that they waltz straight through the “exit only” section — past all the metal detectors and screening machines — sign a logbook and then pretend to be anonymous again. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out these guys are the supposedly undercover agents. What’s worse is that these asinine procedures remained in place after an agent pointed out the flaws.
I mean, just how stupid are these guys? Aren’t we lucky to have such a crack security team protecting our skies? Gheesh…