Originally Posted by
Bart
The other thing is, for what it's worth, I think the BDO program's days are numbered. With a federal budget that is spiraling out of control in other agencies, I think it becomes increasingly difficult for TSA to justify having someone who isn't picking a hand wand, isn't standing at the WTMD, isn't looking at x-ray images or isn't physically searching a bag for prohibited items as having the same importance as TSOs. If a BDO were to nail an honest-to-goodness bad guy who came to the airport with the specific intent of hijacking an airplane, then that would be the program's salvation. And it only has to open once! Until that happens, I think Congress will eventually stop financing the program if the only thing that comes out of it is nailing some idiot who had a stash of dope in his carry-on.
I don't blame the BDOs for this; I blame the staff puke at TSA who tries to turn it into a PR windfall.
I find your comments rather interesting. BDOs dont require millions of dollars in equipment to operate unlike the checkpoint. BDOs are mobile and forward deployed. BDOs dont require constant supervision and actually have had successes
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/commu...,3978505.story. I get a real chuckle of of all the
behavioral expertswho always state something like "ohh, they only have caught druggies and felons and blah blah blah. Could some of you experts give us BDOs a clear defining difference between a terrorist and a person hauling drugs? Probably not because you haven't been in this position and spent endless hours and years wathching people. Whats the problem if a person displaying behaviors turns out to be a wanted felon trying to leave or a dealer? Are you guys advocating that these dirtbags should be given a free pass? Please give me a real answer and not one of these F'd up "your only supposed to look for terrorist" answers. So lets hear it, how does a terrorist behave?