Easy to check facts about A.P. secuity:
1) +50% turn over every year since 9/11.
2) minimum wage average is $8.00 per hour - not worth the BS.
3) imagine putting up with people that have to stand in lines +3 hours just to board a plane. Imagine working with the public .... period.
4) Training is all but non-existant, and appreciation is non-existant.
5) The top security guys make 1,000 times the people doing the work they aren't really trained for and abuse the workers accordingly.
6) Terrorists are clever than someone making $8.00 (or less) an hour - or those making 1,000 times that.
7) It is easier to deceive than to believe. After screaning 100,000 people in a day one gets sloppy or compliant in thinking things are OK - especially if you are being paid $8.00 an hour or haven't been trained to look for specific things about an individual.
8) Terrorists are well trained to blend in.
9) The Airport security system, as is the ports - is being run by politically selected individuals just as FIMA's was.
10) Nothing has really changed sinced 9/11, except that a few machines were bought from politicallyconnectedCorporations that would have been bought anyway - because they were "pioneers" (brought in a buncha money for Bush43).
11) The Airlines do not care so much about security as their new bottomline - they figure security ain't their job - it's everyone elses. e.g. Big Brother
12) bottom line - you get what you pay for. And, if no one wants to pay the help for putting up with the BS, or train them, or teach basic psyche (body language). Well, you get what you pay for.

Sooner than later a 9/11/01 incident will go down. It is just a matter of timing. You can bet they are testing the systems inplace as we discuss the improbability of it ever happening again.

IMO, minimum wage for a AP security officer ought to be +$35K, it ensures competence.