According to today's NewsReal, United has completed their lavatory searches.  You know, the TSA Mandated oops! let's see how many box cutters (aka knives) that 20-year old North Carolina college kids can easily bring past lackadaisical post-9/11 airport Argenbright-wannabe security checkpoints.

Believe it or not, they knew about this kid's intentions for months:

From CNN:

"TSA and the FBI have had this individual's activities under investigation for several months," the TSA said in a statement.

"He left a trail," said a Bush administration official, who added that the e-mail gives details of locations, times and places where contraband was put on the airplanes.

The items found aboard the two planes included box cutters, clay that resembled plastic explosives and bleach, sources familiar with the investigation said. The liquid was contained in suntan lotion bottles; the clay was inside Play-Doh containers.

The material was discovered in plastic bags in the bathrooms of the Southwest planes in New Orleans and Houston, during maintenance checks. The Houston flight originated in Austin, Texas; the New Orleans flight originated in Orlando, Florida.

Notes in each package "indicated the items were intended to challenge the TSA's checkpoint security procedures," a Southwest statement said.

The man claimed to have done this on other planes, not just the two on which items were found, the administration official said. However, no other items have been discovered.

United, like other airlines, did run the search as directed.  Here's an excerpt from today's NewsReal story:

The discovery of some prohibited items aboard two Southwest Airlines aircraft on Thursday night prompted the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to mandate that all U.S. airlines inspect every lavatory on every aircraft in their fleets within 24 hours.

"We learned about the evolving directive from the TSA at around 8 a.m. Chicago time on Friday," says Captain Hank Krakowski, vice president-Safety, Security and Quality Assurance.  "By 3 p.m. on Friday, we had more than half the fleet completed, and we met the TSA deadline well in advance.

It seems the only change in airport security checkpoints (since box cutters are obviously still getting onboard thanks to Lack of Airport Security 101) is that the lines are longer and grandma has to take her shoes off.  The General Accounting Office indicated in their report on airport passenger screening last month that "Testing to date has shown weaknesses in screeners' ability to detect threat objects."

Give the kid extra credit for the semester.