TSA's 95% failure rate shows airport security is a charade

TSA's 95% failure rate shows airport security is a charade - LA Times:
"...He smirked and told me he had been in the military and knew a little bit about security.
Then he waved his arm at the ranks of screening apparatus and long lines of haggard airline passengers and said something like: "This is all a joke. I can think of a hundred ways to sneak a weapon through all of this."
A report leaked out of the Transportation Security Administration reveals that a team of investigators from the Department of Homeland Security managed to sneak weapons and fake bombs past airport screeners in 95% of their attempts to beat the system.
That means what many of us suspected all along has now been confirmed.
All those expensive body and baggage scanning machines, all that intrusive rummaging through luggage, all those intimate pat-downs of little kids and grannies, all those nail clippers confiscated, all those bottles of liquids seized, all those shoes and belts taken off, all those laptops pulled out and all those thousands of frustrating hours wasted in line have been mostly for show.
...There have got to be smarter ways to provide real security at airports.
Treating the 99.99% of travelers who just want to get from here to there like criminal suspects has always been offensive.
Now we know it is also woefully ineffective."