I got in trouble once in the Navy in an unfortunate accident that was NOT MY FAULT that resulted in a $50k police cruiser sitting in the bottom of a bay somewhere overseas. If you heard the story, yes, that was me. The Navy wanted to hang me - the Navy attorney I spoke with got me off the hook and demonstrated it was an accident (it really was and it wasn't through carelessness or neglect - it was bad engineering on the CB's part - though I can never look at a boat ramp without remembering that dark and stormy night again) and I thought "Attorney's aren't so bad!"
Now, the attorney for the California pilot who's weapon was confiscated by the feds after he posted critical videos of TSA states that the Feds are overreacting. Rather than responding to his criticism, they take the last line of defense for a plane (the pilot) and confiscate his weapon. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/24/attorney-criticizes-feds-using-force-critical-pilot/
However, his point was valid - passengers and pilots go through high tech screening and ground crews simply swipe a card to gain access to the plane. In other words, TSA doesn't like being exposed, you have a citizen who's life is at stake who's concerned and instead the Feds intimidate him and send a veiled threat to him by sending feds to his house.
I think to solve this TSA needs to put real-life color images on its screens and create an extended/prolonged groping area near the gate to solve these deficiencies.
