if the flight came from Amsterdam, wouldn't that mean they are the ones that dropped the ball?

I haven't followed it much either, is there much we could have done not sure, but thankful for that alert passenger who saw the man on fire, sitting calmly.

Imagine your crotch on fire and you sitting there without a care in the world yikessssssssss

Thankful the bomb didn't work.

I haven't followed it much either, is there much we could have done not sure, but thankful for that alert passenger who saw the man on fire, sitting calmly.

Imagine your crotch on fire and you sitting there without a care in the world yikessssssssss

"Along with the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, TSA is responsible for researching and deploying new technologies aimed at making air travel safer. With systems mired in various phases of development, not a single new screening technology has been fully implemented nationwide.

GAO auditors found that TSA has not applied any risk analysis or cost-benefit analysis to ensure the effectiveness or need of the new technologies. GAO said that TSA doesn't even have "reasonable assurance that technologies will perform as intended."

Due diligence is required by the agency's own technology-development guidelines. While TSA claims that steps have been taken to "strengthen testing procedures and improve the strategic deployment of emerging technologies," as of September, a repeatedly delayed internal risk-analysis test remains unfinished with no timeline for completion. TSA can't provide a timetable for beginning cost-benefit analyses or for creating performance measures for its new technologies.

The findings are hardly surprising. The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general has documented serious passenger- and baggage-screening failures and insufficient tracking of airport security passes and uniforms of former employees. In tests to evaluate airport-screener performance, GAO officials were able to sneak low-yield detonators, explosives and incendiary devices onto planes.

Despite TSA's troubled history, the response from Congress continues to be anemic. One pending House bill would actually give collective-bargaining power to failing airport screeners. Giving labor more power would undermine the already poor screener-performance record by lowering standards. More than 50 percent failed the agency's skills test this year, but the screeners' unions maintain that the problem is the test itself."


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/04/lax-airport-security/

ok question...how do these guidelines pertain to other countries? Aren't these guidelines just for the US?

The US can stop allowing service from any airport in the world to the US if they don't abide by the security guidelines.

The incentive is economic!

Besides the airline was Delta!
Delta airlines is a United States airline based and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

in other words....flights like these can come here without our screening guidelines?

Finally we are getting some where.

Shortly after 9/11, 2001, new security guidelines and requirements to improve equipment were put to order.

Evidently in the 8 or so years since no one has done squat.
Since Obama has became President Congressional action has been obstructed and delayed at every opportunity by the Republican Party.

Wait Fanta, Can this really be true?

Why yes I believe that is right. The Anti-American Party has been delaying and obstructing every bill presented before it with such vigor they have prevented any effective progress towards congressional action on anything else.

Of course that is just for the last 11 months. What about the 7 years before that?

Answer,
Beats me.
I guess maybe Obama needs to review everything the prior Admin was suppossed to have done.
They should never have expected it to have been done right.

Do we have the authority to enforce rules in other countries?

No, but we can refuse them service to US Airports if they don't enforce them.