Reinventing Airport Security

Reinventing Airport Security

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab may have done us a favor. More than eight years after 9/11/01, he revealed that our multi-billion dollar airport security system doesn't work.

It doesn't work because it was conceptualized as a search for weapons -- or anything that might be used as a weapon. On Christmas Day you can bet TSA agents confiscated plenty of nail files and toothpaste, even if they did miss the explosives in Umar's undershorts.

The system needs to be reinvented - not for the first time. Remember when airport security...