As You Fly This Christmas Week, Be Comforted By TSA:

After you've been given your very own personal federal colonoscopy and groping, think of this:

The TSA clearly states that the concomitant technology makes us much safer.

Experts tell ABC News that every year since the September 11 terror attacks, federal agencies have conducted random, covert "red team tests," where undercover agents try to see just how much they can get past security checks at major U.S. airports. And while the Department of Homeland Security closely guards the results as classified, those that have leaked in media reports have been shocking.

And if you enjoyed that, you'll enjoy this as you stand in queue awaiting your radiative and philangitized "close up," so to speak:

According to one report, undercover TSA agents testing security at a Newark airport terminal on one day in 2006 found that TSA screeners failed to detect concealed bombs and guns 20 out of 22 times.

Aaah, comfortable now, are we?

Merry Christmas!

BZ