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As another poster pointed out, the shoe bomber was caught by alert people on the flight.

The shoe bomber got through airport security in Paris.

When people say that the TSA has stopped no terrorist plots, that's the literal truth. All that money spent. All of the loss of our ability to fly conveniently. All of the loss of our liberties. Not a single foiled terrorist plot to show for any of it.

Not one.



Devil's advocate here: but the TSA has made it more difficult to attack planes, meaning that they stooped attacks that nobody will ever know about




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