John Rockefeller actually said...

this kind of thing. And it is an American characteristic that you do not do anything which displeases the voters because you always have to ...

somebody getting elected or re-elected is less important than the country surviving in a structural sense.

They are growing so fast in passenger use: 700 million people went on airplanes this year; 1 billion Americans will do so in 5 to 8 years.

What are TSA's biggest obstacles to improving the acquisition process for security technology?