Originally Posted by
TSORon
It does not matter how old the article is, nor how the professor is reimbursed or not reimbursed for his time with the TSA, but if it provides a “value add” to the TSA and its mission.
Actually, it matters very much to me how the TSA spends my tax dollars.
Originally Posted by
TSORon
Obviously the TSA thinks so, but Behavior Detection has its limitations and the TSA knows this. It cant tell you if someone is a terrorist. Sorry, not going to happen. It CAN tell you if someone is displaying the signs of deception in an unconscious way. What happens from there is up to the BDO and the other part of their training.
(disclaimer: I am not a BDO, nor do I have the training as one, but I find the concepts of their job fascinating)
I know next to nothing about behavior detection, so I'm not going to question how effective it is. Here's my issue with the BDOs: They've caught nobody but drug carriers and a few people with fake ID's. Nobody related to terrorism. Given how the brass trumpets every pot bust it makes, I have no doubt that it would let us know if it caught somebody even remotely related to national security. But the mission creep is astounding.
Mike