Credit where credit is due:Jeffrey Goldberg on airport security

In the following article, Jeffrey Goldberg gives a few quite staggering insights into security loopholes at American airports:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/the-things-he-carried/7057/

I'll save my usual "Half security is no security" rant for some other day. For now, go to Jeffrey Goldberg's article to get your daily dose of security lunacy.

-- Birgit

P.S.: The guy seems to have written some other reasonably interesting articles as well (which you can find here), as well as a book that, after the free reading sample on Amazon, I found compelling enough to actually order it. (It's supposed to be shipped within the next 5 to 8 weeks.)

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