The whole nationalization of airline security was simply a "feelgood" exercise to gain political hay. What we have done was create a bureaucracy like the postal service. Security should have been contracted with private companies that could be fired if they didn't do the job. But it is too late now. Bush has not limited the growth of government. Excite News: "college student told federal authorities he placed box cutters and other banned items aboard two Southwest Airlines (LUV) planes nearly five weeks before they were found, according to an FBI affidavit."