One of the BA staff at IAD said the delays could be drastically reduced if all the various "authorities" involved actually communicated and co-ordinated with one another more effectively. It seems like a bit of a power-struggle to me!
If these "authorities" are acting on what they call "credible intelligence", we hope they have got it right - (credible intelligence of all those piles of WMD's in Iraq spring to mind!!).
One would think that the US and UK, two countries with the most sophisticated electronic resources in the world, would be able to isolate (or develop a means of isolating) a "credible threat" without the present scorched earth machine-gun-a-rabbit type measures.
