Feeling safe?

The Transportation Safety Administration is going through a shakeup.

Reportedly, the agency failed in detecting dangerous items passing through security at airports.

The items were brought by TSA agents posing as passengers.

They were to test the integrity of the security system.

The screeners failed to detect the test items ninety-five percent of the time As a result, agency managers are being reassigned and a number of procedural changes are being made.

This news comes at the same time that it was discovered that a government laboratory shipped live anthrax to a number of locations.

In fact, the Pentagon received a shipment of live anthrax.

The intent was to ship dead anthrax so that security services could test their detection equipment.

The only problem was that the anthrax was still alive and dangerous.

Little wonder government programs are so distrusted and citizens are skeptical.

The programs may be well designed and properly conceived, but each requires those responsible to make them work.

The national concern is terrorism.

At the least we should be safe from those supposedly making us safe.