Originally Posted by
cb1111
Incorrect. History has shown us that the people we are dealing with don't build appropriate cover stories. In addition, there are things that you can't hide that will give everyone but the trained professional away - and those aren't the guys we're dealing with.
Maybe Underwear Bob and Shoe-bomb Joe, but those folks were bumbling idiots. I wouldn't exactly call them "the people we are dealing with," or at least certainly not the ones we should be afraid of. @:-)
The 9/11 hijackers, who due to poor policies and bungled intelligence leads were quite successful, would never have been caught by being asked to read their names or other inane BDC mumbo-jumbo.
Originally Posted by
cb1111
There is of course the question if the TDC can actually detect those indicators, but those indicators are there - just like when you can tell if your 16 year old isn't quite telling the truth.
An awful lot of 16-year-olds seem to be able to lie fairly convincingly, even to immediate family who should know them best. But we're straying off-topic here.
Originally Posted by
cb1111
You'd be surprised at the amount of people referred to law enforcement by the TDCs. Did they all intend to cause harm? Of course not, but some certainly did.
Scope creep, plain and simple. The TSA and their TDCs are supposed to be there for airline security screening, not for conducting asset forfeitures, drug busts, enforcing restraining orders for domestic disputes, catching deadbeat dads, etc. Anything more than enforcing security screening is really crossing 4th Amendment lines.
Originally Posted by
doober
Sociopaths do the above as well. Think Ted Bundy. Terrorists are sociopaths.
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