Description: This stunning expose of security gaps in the nation’s airline security system takes the primary focus off boarding procedures, and examines a wider scope--finding, for example, that airport personnel move quite freely around and in plane...
Synopsis This stunning expose of security gaps in the nation’s airline security system takes the primary focus off boarding procedures, and examines a wider scope--finding, for example, that airport personnel move quite freely around and in planes, and that efforts to improve security after 9/11have been thwarted by lobbyists for air carriers. Susan and Joseph Trento charge that the many terrorist events prior to 9/11 revealed flaws in security that were not acted upon, and that after 9/11 the private companies responsible for security during passenger arrival and boarding bore the brunt of the blame unfairly. The Trentos charge that the government (along with the 9/11 Commission) has not been forthcoming to the American people and has a lot to answer for. Are we safer now than we were before 9/11? The Trentos think not.