If their success rate is low--that just proves we need more of them on the line.  TSA stops many guns  from getting inside airplanes every year  . Imagine how much dangerous stuff would get on board without them.   As for the photo of the gal that supposedly got hurt by TSA---the photo looked staged .  I wasn't there , but I travel often , and in my many years and countless flights I've never seen TSA rough up anyone.  You might wait until all the facts come in before tarnishing thousands of TSA workers over this incident.  I wish we didn't have to go through all of this but thank terrorists for that.  Without TSA there would be many more horrible incidents .  They , just like our military---are hero's for keeping us as safe as possible.  They deserve our respect .  As the author correctly points out , yet goes completely over the heads of TSA's critics---the TSA workers we see face to face when we travel don't make the rules---they just do the job they are told to do.