{"id":32580,"date":"2022-09-07T09:11:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T13:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=32580"},"modified":"2022-09-07T09:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T13:12:00","slug":"the-humiliating-history-of-the-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2022\/09\/07\/the-humiliating-history-of-the-tsa.html","title":{"rendered":"The Humiliating History of the TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/c\/23311333\/tsa-history-airport-security-theater-homeland\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/acastro_226107_lede.jpg?w=1080&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The truth is that although many commentators on 9\/11 called the attacks \u201cour Pearl Harbor,\u201d a better comparison might be our Trojan Horse \u2014 a stratagem so successful, so devastating, and so infamous that it will never work again. It makes little sense for the TSA to organize itself so single-mindedly against an attack that may never come, a massive agency on the lookout for a big, wooden horse.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/c\/23311333\/tsa-history-airport-security-theater-homeland\">The Humiliating History of the TSA<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The truth is that although many commentators on 9\/11 called the attacks \u201cour Pearl Harbor,\u201d a better comparison might be our Trojan Horse \u2014 a stratagem so successful, so devastating, and so infamous that it will never work again. It makes little sense for the TSA to organize itself so single-mindedly against an attack that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-links-to-other-places","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/acastro_226107_lede.jpg?fit=1200%2C630&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-8tu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32582,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32580\/revisions\/32582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}