Comment by phantasmish

It helps that this one was entirely pointless except for generating more contracts to hand to pals, like a lot of the stuff around that time—say, when they created Homeland Security rather than just beefing up existing structures that served similar purposes (easier to direct contracts to friends and companies you own large stakes in when you’re setting up a totally new department with an excuse to get all-new everything!)

Like this doesn’t actually matter, at all, for security purposes. Which is why nobody’s cared enough to make it go faster.