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Old May 10, 2009 | 8:38 pm
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Originally Posted by Bart
Most people in this forum accept TSA as a workable solution. There are aspects of screening that they find objectionable for legitimate reasons. It's only a handful of the forum members who come in here just to whine or come up with clever little cliche's that feed their unrealistic anti-TSA agenda.
Wrong. I don't believe that "most people in this forum accept TSA as a workable solution," at least in its present form.

Perhaps we should conduct a poll to see if Bart is correct.

Originally Posted by Bart
If you bothered to pay attention to the sum of my comments, you would find that I believe the BDO program, effective as it is at detecting suspicious behavior, is probably on its way out. It's biggest handicap is what I call the giggle factor. It's very difficult to articulate even though it does work. It simply doesn't play well in a court room.
What the giggle factor really is, is DHS trying to tell Congress why it should be funded when DHS can't point to a single terrorist detected by a BDO.
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