Originally Posted by
Blkflyer
The failure rates at Los Angeles and Chicago are "somewhat misleading" because they don't reflect screeners' improved ability to find bombs, Howe said.
This was my favorite part of the entire article. I thought the whole problem was that the screeners DON'T have the ability to find bombs, but it turns out I was wrong. It's just that the fake bombs confuse the screeners and stop them from finding real bombs, I guess.