Air Travel Was Never The Same (cont)
Everything would change with Congress creating an entirely new federal agency in the Transportation Security Administration just a month after the attacks. Before the attacks, airports rarely did background checks on their employees and didn’t scan luggage as frequently as we do now, in the space of a year, everything would change.
Within a year of its creation, the TSA had over 50,000 employees and had introduced U.S. travelers to extensive new security protocols such as needing tickets and photo IDs to get through the screening area. The airport detectors that only identified metal objects were replaced with the controversial full body scanners and any technology you had one you had to be removed from your bags or pockets to be scanned as well.
The world was also introduced to the “No Fly” list after the FBI created its Terrorist Screening Center and its Terrorist Watch List. Surprisingly, this list, which had around 6000 suspicious individuals that would be banned from flying on it, had around 500 American citizens on it too.
