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TSA Spent $900 Million on Behavior Detection Officers Who Detected 0 Terrorists
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| November 25, 2013 - 6:14 PM
| Michael W. Chapman
Posted on 11/25/2013 7:10:59 PM PST by Olog-hai
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) spent approximately $900 million over the last 5 years for behavior detection officers to identify high-risk passengers, but so far, according to the General Accountability Office (GAO), only 0.59% of the passengers flagged were arrested, and among those, not one was charged with terrorismzero.
In 2003, the TSA started testing its Screening of Passengers by Observation Technique (SPOT) program, which was then fully deployed in 2007. About 3,000 behavior detection officers (BDO) had been deployed to 176 of the more than 450 TSA-regulated airports in the United States by fiscal year 2012 (Oct. 1, 2011Sept. 30, 2012), according to the GAO.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: behaviordetection; jihad; rop; spot; terrorism; tsa
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:10:59 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Whew! It’s a good thing the dollar isn’t worth much, isn’t it?
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:12:11 PM PST
by
Standing Wolf
(No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
To: Olog-hai
How much have we spent on the TSA? They haven’t caught one terrorist period.
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:12:17 PM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Olog-hai
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:14:50 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: Olog-hai
From the same folks who brought you a website that doesn’t work!
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:17:51 PM PST
by
Gamecock
(If you like your constitution, you can keep your constitution. Period. (M.S.))
To: Olog-hai
Just another slush fund. Boy, we thought Bill Clinton was good at laundering money.
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:17:54 PM PST
by
VerySadAmerican
(".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
To: Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Who got paid, and what’s their relationship to Obama and the DNC?
To: Olog-hai
Ha ha ha ha. I’ve experienced some of their “behaviour detection”. I’m going through the line and the TSA guy looks me in the eye and tells me my ticket is invalid. He watches me closely. Since I have not shown him my “ticket” which is at this point a boarding pass, I just say OK and proceed. I guess that was the correct thing to do since I got on the plane. I’ve also had them wave me toward the naked scanner then wave me off, then back, while looking at my eyes (pupil response, maybe?).
Imagine if the federal government actually gets some tech that allows them to determine intent- to a high degree of confidence. Some administrations would deploy that in critical voting precincts!
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:28:52 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: tacticalogic
We had a DHS director who demanded naked scanners then retired to work for the naked scanner company as CEO or CFO or something.
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:30:04 PM PST
by
DBrow
To: Olog-hai
Maybe they will try remote viewing next.
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:39:50 PM PST
by
jim-x
(9/11/2001 - Never forget, Never forgive.)
To: VerySadAmerican; Olog-hai
Just another slush fund. Boy, we thought Bill Clinton was good at laundering money. Just another way to boost the number of government employees paying dues to the SEIU.
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:47:41 PM PST
by
Pontiac
(The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
To: Pontiac
SEIU’s got CA basically locked down.
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:49:14 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Seems to work very well with Israel and a myriad of other countries .... think possibly the slack-jawed, inbred, high forehead TSA agents trained are part of the problem?
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:50:39 PM PST
by
RetiredTexasVet
(The Progressives believe that the "Bill of Rights" was meant to only be a suggestion.)
To: Olog-hai
Which one of barry or michele’s friends got all of this money?
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posted on
11/25/2013 7:58:52 PM PST
by
Old Yeller
(Obama: A dark spot in this country's history.)
To: driftdiver
How much have we spent on the TSA? They havent caught one terrorist period. It's not a complete loss. After all, as long as they keep busy at the checkpoints feeling up passengers or gaping at the nudie scanners, they're on the ground not in the air.
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posted on
11/25/2013 8:01:18 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: Olog-hai
Maybe they would have if they were not trained to suspect older white Granny and instead were looking at the bearded Mid East looking young men wearing Nike’s and golf shirts in winter.
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posted on
11/25/2013 8:09:01 PM PST
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
To: conservative98
Once they are on the federal payroll they are protected by more administrative laws than we would care to think about. They also now qualify for 6 weeks of paid "administrative duty" and 60 days of time to decompress after they were wrongly questioned, doubted, or had to prove they were actually American citizens.
In short a union protects them now so they are untouchable.
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posted on
11/25/2013 8:15:22 PM PST
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
To: Alaska Wolf
Obviously, the mere presence of highly trained and professional TS agents has scared 100% of the potential terrorists away.
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posted on
11/25/2013 8:39:22 PM PST
by
null and void
(I'm betting on an Obama Trifecta: A Nobel Peace Prize, an Impeachment, AND a War Crimes Trial...)
To: DBrow
Behavior detection is a subtle skill. It is quite easy for an amateur to screw it up. It is also easy for an overly aggressive personality to amp up a situation instead of diffusing it.
You aren't going to get that out of the average TSA officer.
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posted on
11/25/2013 9:32:07 PM PST
by
USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
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