Squaring Circles and Circling Squares
Is the TSA, the government organization that now wants us all to take our shoes off before each flight we take, part of the fact-based community? It is difficult to tell. An entry on their homepage trumpets: The System Worked: TSA Security Officers Respond to Threat in Huntington. It goes on to say that the technology at the West Virginia airport was able to pick up traces of explosives in the hand luggage of a Pakistani woman going through security.
Yet, here is an article about the same incident in The Independent saying that this wasn’t the case, that no explosives were found, and that the issue and more to do with her traditional Muslim garb than anything else. Here is that take on reality.