Feeling Nervous? 3,000 Behavior Detection Officers Will Be Watching You at the Airport This Thanksgiving

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sent by Sparrows since 76 days 19 hours 58 minutes, published about 76 days 3 hours 20 minutes
Here's a question to ponder the next time you're taking off your shoes at airport security: Can you spot terrorists by the look on their faces? For the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the answer is yes. For the past few years, airports across the country have been using what many call "behavioral surveillance" to weed out potential hijackers among us, by covertly examining travelers' facial expressions and body language as they go through security. Unlike those airport employees who herd us along as we remove our shoes and relinquish all liquids over three ounces (with dubious results), this new program, named "Screening Passengers by Observational Techniques," or "SPOT," is carried out by TSA employees who have been trained to monitor travelers' faces and movements. As Americans head out of town this holiday season, more than 3,000 "Behavior Detection Officers" will be at 161 airports nationwide, watching our every move.
tags: tsa, spot, detecting passenger behavior, ps
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  1. #1    We have moved into a police state and yet we still have some on here drooling over Obama and comparing him to JFK. This is very troublesome and very scary.
    written by Sparrows since 76 days 19 hours 56 minutesSparrows
  2. #2    Doesn't Israel do that? I don't know. Maybe makes more sense than taking little old grandmas to the private room for strip searching.
    written by dball213 since 76 days 2 hours 30 minutesdball213
  3. #3    Pssst
    Everone just act normal
    Stop tugging yer moustache
    and scratching yer beard.
    Big Bros getting bigger and bigger
    written by Buzzard-Breath since 76 days 1 time 47 minutesBuzzard-Breath
  4. #4    Jeez, no "terrorist" attacks in years and we still lost the war to protect our freedoms. How ironic that the more nations the US Fourth Reich invades, the more homeland security buffs up security measures.
    written by bluefin since 76 days 1 time 12 minutesbluefin
  5. #5    Pay the minimum wage GED graduate at the metal detector, a decent wage, you wouldn't need these high-priced MIC Contractor firms coming in with their acronyms and their supposed "observational" so-called skills
    written by TurMault since 76 days 25 minutesTurMault
  6. #6    They had Behaviour Detection Officers in Germany for a long, long time. Nice people, when you talk to them, you get the sense of security, that actually someone cares about your safety.

    But then, in Germany, they use common sense...

    Good luck, sheeple.
    written by Malgoska since 76 days 2 minutesMalgoska
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