The System Worked

by digby

Kevin Drum is asking some questions about what happened on that flight in Miami yesterday. It all sounds a little “screwy” to me too, but not just because the witness accounts sound as if the marshalls may have overreacted. There’s something else screwy about this.

The marshalls were obviously persuaded that it was quite possible that this man had a bomb in his carry on bag. And apparently, the marshalls went through the plane after the fact, looking for accomplices, pointing guns at the passengers and knocking cell phones out of their hands ostensibly because they thought they might contain guns.

Now I know that the marshalls are taught to shoot first and ask questions later and all that, so no lectures please. But I still find it amazing that after all this time, they automatically assume that a group of people could get a bomb and “cell phone guns” through the gate security in a US airport. Goes to show you how useful all that boarding gate crap really is, doesn’t it?

My favorite comment on this matter is Monica Crowley this morning saying that the good thing about all this is that “the system worked.”

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