Do most people in the US actually like the TSA? Doesn't the average Joe hate them by now? Why can't someone else take a line like Ron Paul's? "I want to secure this country. The TSA does nothing toward this goal. If you want to prevent the next 9/11, join me in getting rid of this farse."

@ #45 PTERYXX:
Yeah, I'm not surprised that Ron Paul is smart about this stuff. He's most likely going to get my primary vote, which unfortunately won't count, since my state votes after Super Tuesday, and McCain seems to have sewn up that party already.

It's a shame that the "mainstream" candidates apparently don't have the courage (they probably do have the intelligence) to talk about this issue. I wonder if McCain and Paul would consider banding together and forming a Conservative Anti-Establishment ticket. I think that such a ticket could beat Clinton easily.

@ #22 Elysianartist -
Sure, or that. I'm curious about whether any of the candidates have even put thought into this issue. That would already be a plus. The particular position is actually less interesting to me, since "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy," but a President who has worked out some sort of position on the issue is more likely to do anything at all to address it.

Have any of the US Presidential candidates said anything to indicate that they're contemplating reforming DHS and the TSA?

Surely you mean Wellsian?

So basically, it's frozen teething keys for adults.

"Erring on the side of caution" sounds suspiciously like Pascal's Wager.

Anyway, there are multiple vectors along which one could be cautious for any potentially climate-impacting decision: climate impact, personal economics, global economics, safety, etc. For example, when you cautiously buy a Prius to cut down on petroleum use and emissions, you incautiously invest in new technology that is more expensive and whose lifecycle is not yet fully known. Sure, there are some climate-friendly actions you could take that seem to be pretty much slam dunks (e.g. using CFLs instead of incandescent lightbulbs), but most policy decisions are a great deal more complex, requiring responsible decision-makers to do a more careful analysis than simply being cautious along the vector du jour.

An annonymous "Senior Military Source" quoted in a Hebrew news story by the Muqata blog seems to think that the ongoing jamming is coming from the Russians:

http://muqata.blogspot.com/2007/10/electromagnetic-terror-attack-against.html