Don't forget, these are the same people who are afraid of big bottles of shampoo.

As a TSA employee, I have to say that I'm pretty amused that my fellow Huffpost commentors would refuse to take the time to look at this objectively. Instead, the few who have posted here hurl names and insults simply because the TSA is a product of 9/11 and therefore everything associated with this administration is bad. The fact is the TSA screeners only fault was that they followed procedure to prevent a possible IED from reaching the sterile area of the airport, and ultimately, the plane. I have to say that likewise, the blogger who was stopped only revealed his ignorance of what was truly taking place. His laptop could have only been targeted for specific reasons (which I'm not allowed to disclose), but I can assure you it wasn't because it was some new fangled tech or because it looked different. Laptops, given their nature, undergo extra scrutiny because they are a perfect vehicle for hiding or even being an IED. Thats why you take them out of their carrying case when you send them through xray. Normally, if the X-Ray Operator decides that the laptop needed additional screening, the most it will undergo will be a test of explosive trace residue (this will identify if the laptop has been tampered with) It normally only takes a few minutes and if nothing comes back, the passenger can go on his or her way. The blogger's laptop must have alerted for explosives because its the explosive trace and not the xray that gives a printout, and it only gives a printout when it detects something. This is when the tsa screener calls over a supervisor to assess the situation (the supposed gaggle of tsa screeners?). Now even this shouldn't take long. If they had thought it was an actual threat, the blogger would have been dealing with more than tsa... so I believe what actually transpired was this blogger was running late (theres a reason the airlines tell you to get to the airport 2 hours early) and the 10 or 15 minutes max he was held up was enough to keep him from missing his flight. Now its the TSA's fault because he couldn't show up to the airport when he should have.

This is what happens when the TSA is run by fucking retards.. and it is.

Apparently TSA needs to do a better job of training their chimps.

Here's another good reason why the TSA should be dismantled. I ran into this kind of ignorance when I was flying on business every week for over 6 years.

This is just another bloated government agency that is lipstick on a pig of a policy. But hey...Give it time; this too shall become privatized with some no-bid crony walking away with the taxpayer money.

Get rid of the supreme moron Chertoff and his "Fatherland" Security Agency (that man makes me wretch).