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Because everyone knows it is security theater.

Plus stealing from luggage is a major source of income for TSA employees, they are caught every few months but they keep doing it - so for every one caught you know there are hundreds not caught and management knows this.

https://google.com/search?q=tsa+stealing

Remember how corrupt TSA employees are the next time you see a story on the news about how corrupt officials in another country are...

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I agree with you that the TSA is a joke, but as someone who worked as a TSA agent before, I never stole anything, nor to the best of my knowledge did anyone I worked with steal anything. Stealing, in fact, would be kind of difficult, even in the baggage rooms. I think "a major source of income for TSA employees" is a pretty gross exaggeration of the truth. For the most part, TSA employees are just a bunch of regular people trying to make a living, just like everyone else.

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