Editing Transportation Security Administration (section)

===Calls for abolition===
Numerous groups and figures have called for the abolition of the TSA in its current form by persons and groups which include Sen. [[Rand Paul]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/75896.html|title=Rand Paul's TSA fix: Pull the plug|work=POLITICO|date=May 3, 2012 }}</ref> (R-KY), Rep. [[John Mica]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110913/10465415931/guy-who-created-tsa-says-its-failed-its-time-to-dismantle-it.shtml|title=Guy Who Created The TSA Says It's Failed, And It's Time To Dismantle It|work=Techdirt.|date=September 14, 2011}}</ref> (R-FL), The [[Cato Institute]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/privatizing-transportation-security-administration|title=Privatizing the Transportation Security Administration|work=Cato Institute}}</ref> [[Downsize DC Foundation]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://downsizedc.org/etp/tsa/|title=Abolish the TSA|access-date=April 20, 2015|archive-date=July 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730232856/https://downsizedc.org/etp/tsa/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[FreedomWorks]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freedomworks.org/content/top-10-reasons-abolish-transportation-security-administration-tsa|title=Top 10 Reasons to Abolish the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)|date=May 11, 2012}}</ref> and opinion columnists from ''[[Forbes]],''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2010/11/14/full-frontal-nudity-doesnt-make-us-safer-abolish-the-tsa/|title=Full Frontal Nudity Doesn't Make Us Safer: Abolish the TSA|author=Art Carden|date=November 14, 2010|work=Forbes}}</ref> ''[[Fox News]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/congress-should-abolish-the-tsa-its-time-to-privatize-airport-screening/|title=Congress should abolish the TSA -- it's time to privatize airport screening|author=Chris Edwards|work=Fox News|date=March 9, 2015}}</ref> ''[[National Review]],''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/365365/abolish-tsa-veronique-de-rugy|title=National Review Online|author=Veronique de Rugy|website=[[National Review]]|date=December 3, 2013}}</ref> ''[[USA Today]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/12/02/tsa-department-homeland-security-patriot-act-column/3796127/|title=Abolish the TSA: Column|date=December 2, 2013|work=USA TODAY}}</ref> ''[[Vox (website)|Vox]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2014/5/26/5750764/the-case-for-abolishing-the-tsa|title=The case for abolishing the TSA|author=Dylan Matthews|date=May 26, 2014|work=Vox}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Examiner]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/abolish-the-tsa/article/2543245|title=Abolish the TSA|author=Charles Hoskinson|work=Washington Examiner|date=January 31, 2014}}</ref> and ''[[The Washington Post]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/16/abolish-the-tsa/|title=Abolish the TSA|author=CJ Ciaramella|date=April 16, 2015|newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref>

The TSA's critics frequently cite the agency as "ineffective, invasive, incompetent, inexcusably costly, or all four" as their reasons for seeking its abolition.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Mann |first=Charles C. |author-link=Charles C. Mann |date=December 20, 2011 |title=Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2011/12/tsa-insanity-201112 |journal=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |location=New York, NY |publisher=[[Condé Nast Publications]] |access-date=April 20, 2015}}</ref> Those seeking to abolish the TSA have cited the improved efficacy and cost of screening provided by qualified private companies in compliance with federal guidelines.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archives.republicans.transportation.house.gov/Media/file/112th/Aviation/2011-06-03-TSA_SPP_Report.pdf |title=TSA Ignores More Cost-Effective Screening Model |access-date=April 20, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160907012004/http://archives.republicans.transportation.house.gov/Media/file/112th/Aviation/2011-06-03-TSA_SPP_Report.pdf |archive-date=September 7, 2016 }}</ref>