Sea-Tac back door lets you keep toothpaste

Sea-Tac's security: Are they serious?

Danny Westneat

Seattle Times staff columnist

Greg Alderete has more than a passing interest in homeland security. A retired lieutenant colonel in the Army, he has devoted most of his life to it.

So when he realized he had driven a van onto a runway tarmac at Sea-Tac airport — and that no one had asked his name, checked his ID or searched his vehicle — well, he just about lost it."I was appalled," Alderete says. "If you go in the airport's front door, they take away your tube of toothpaste. But the back door? That's the weakest security of any critical facility I've ever seen."

He's talking about the corporate jet area, on the airport's south tip. Business and government bigwigs fly in and out of there.

Alderete and Chris Clodfelter, a former senior master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, arrived there Thursday, May 8, to pick up a two-star general flying in from Portland.



http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2004422114_danny18.html

The smaller fields that specialize in the little corporate and private jets are wide open, security-wise...

That should make everyone feel safer.

just we proles.

People like bin laden have plenty of cash; they can use they vip door if they care to.

they keep the atmosphere of "perceived threat" ratcheted up for a docile population that is trained to respond well to advertising and that will submit easily to authority.

several runways trying to get the guy to his flight on time?

:rofl: