[codezero]

"I know many people want to believe in TSA and national security conspiracies."

No, I think most people just believe the TSA to be completely inept and operated without much oversight or coherence. Complaining about (repeated) bad treatment doesn't make it a conspiracy.

[wpietri]

Absolutely. Conspiracy is unnecessary. I hear nothing about the TSA that can't be explained through bureaucracy, politics, and the Stanford prison experiment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment