Originally Posted by
gsoltso
That being said the BDO program (regardless of what you say/think/want) is a valid program. It has resulted in several people being caught while exhibiting behaviors that are the same as someone trying to blow up a plane. This generates a quandry when people that are either confirmed or suspected terrorists are caught by the BDOs (I have no stats on that and if they exist I am quite certain that it would be SSI).
Let's not kid ourselves. When the guy on the west coast (forget where it was....Seattle, Honolulu?) had a shoe that a cobbler left his tool in there, that news spread like wildfire.
When the moron in Tulsa who put a pipe bomb in his carry-on, and was detected, the TSA PR blitz was swift and decisive.
The TSA posts warm and fuzzies about catching a physically challenged person in Orange County with cocaine in his possession during screening.
Considering all of those things that have happened, and the TSA's reaction to them, you can be damn sure the TSA PR force will send out press releases in triplicate to all the newsies and to hell with SSI if the TSA ever made The Big Catch.