9/11 retrospectives and the TSA

I started compiling this weeks ago and may still add more, but I want to post it before I forget. I have always mourned the innocent individuals who died 10 years ago, but I also think the advent of the TSA in its aftermath was a grave error. The TSA got a lot of press - good and bad - as people thought back about how airline security changed since the hijackings of 9/11. Here's some that I found and want to share:

• A general aviation airport administrator holds the official "privacy vs security" line in a 10-year anniversary piece at a local newspaper.
• And a much better retrospective editorial appeared in the Washington Times, questioning TSA policies.
• An informative list of post-9/11 security tech.
• A sorry excuse for journalism: the writer gets a tour in "rare media access to security checkpoint operations" and so he just quotes extensively from his tourguide without much indication of brain activity. 
• It's always good to be reminded of how corporatism is part and parcel of the TSA and the rest of the "national security state."
• An excellent column at Antiwar.com, which contains - among much other great commentary and information - this tidbit:

...the TSA had the ability to make this new software, which he calls “blob” technology, an alternative to “the naked” technology, all along. It just took a lot of negative publicity and near revolt for them to pursue it.