Frida Ghitis: TSA doing full-body scanning and pat downs is becoming an easy applause line for people to rip the agency. Ghitis says TSA’s job is defined narrowly as a secure transportation system, and every failure leads to them getting blamed. She says in our paranoia and fear we let things like the Patriot Act happen. We were fine with the warrantless wiretaps and water boarding. Then a few years passed without a terrorist attack on American soil, all those things became intolerable again to a majority of Americans. Give us something to be afraid of and we’re perfectly willing to give it up. When we’re feeling more comfortable and complacent, we want the government to stay out of our business, Ghitis writes.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2126143/tsa-and-the-freedom-thing–we-re-the-problem.html