elderly woman remove her soiled adult diaper because it was preventing a thorough patdown. this former miss america says she felt molest. she actually touched my vagina. but didn t the tsa keep us safe? there haven t been successful attacks since september 11th. you might say that shows it is working. actually, every report shows that tsa missed things. what saved us was the passengers and crew. congressman mica helped create the tsa and now chairs the transportation committee. richard reid. it wasn t the tsa that saved the day. the diaper bomber it was the passengers and crew that saved the day. the times square bomber he called on his cell phone and order his ticket on the way to jfk and went through tsa and got on the plane. and the tsa is such a lousy place to work that more than 50% of the work force has quit. the agency keeps losing
willing to help. i think they are a little more understanding. everybody here is friendly. a lot more friendly than dallas. dallas and all the other big airports employ government screeners. san francisco is the one major airport that was allowed to hire screeners who work for a private company. not only are these screeners nicer they are bettered a at fining stuff. the tsa tested them and found they were twice as good at finding contraband. we who private screeners be nicer and better? here is a reason. they practice. here they are racing to match the security cards together under black light. the fastest screener will win $2,000. there is even dramatic music. the tsa trains its screeners, too, but not like this. in this competition screeners race to search bags and identify forbidden items. here is a pipe bomb. then they rush to repack the bag. in this test they look at slides of people and try to
the tsa is awful. touched my vagina. there are hundreds of other examples are how government can t in here. can read more about that in my website john stossel .com. wait, you say if government can t what about cutting edge science like nasa? america did send a man to the moon. we got the flag up now. we all like this. beautiful. just beautiful. but think about it. it cost billions and what did we get. in promos for a breakfast drink. tang instant breakfast drink went with them. mass that technology did give us the cat scan but our billions haven t gotten us much. we get lots of delayed science. government science is clumsy. for a fraction of the cost a private group called the x prize does better. offer a prize and they will come. they promised $10 million to any one who could launch three men into outer space. 25 teams competed for the prize.
company. the law that created the tsa allows that but airports have to ask for permission. cindy and dozens of other airport managers asked but the tsa simply didn t respond for a year and a half and then they said no. what reason did they give you? they didn t give us a reason. we asked tsa officials to come on the show to explain their position but they declined. their spokesman also lied to us when we asked for permission to film the competition at san francisco airport they told us the private company is camera shy and wants to stay out of the lime light. but it wasn t true. i don t know why they did that. i really don t. the only reason the tsa has given for rejecting other san francisco like experiments is there is no clear advantage to the federal government. i bet mcdonald s would like to tell burger king you can t open here, there is no clear advantage to you coming here. they would love that i m sure. tsa creator congressman micah says the bureaucrats are
taller than the empire state building. new towers should be finished by next year, likely to be declared the tallest building in the us us and third tallest in the world. i m lauren green now back to no. they can t . vogel. now, back to john stossel s no they can t. after september 11, politicians said government must take over airline security. you get federal law enforcement to do this job. tom daschle said you can t professionalize if you don t federalize and the senate voted 100 to zero to take over airport security screening. sir, do you have your i.d.? it it now professional? opt out! these people don t think so. flyers complain that they are. subjected to such disgusting abuses of poured concrete. tsa employees ordered the