Originally Posted by
chollie
Looks like another massive taxpayer boondoggle coming down the road. Huge taxpayers dollars will be spent on training folks who aren't qualified in the first place. I suspect only a small percentage of my own workforce would be qualifed to do this sort of interrogation effectively - and we're going to waste time and money telling folks who can't master the website list of '10 allowable IDs' to become ace BDOs.
TSA and the security screening has a huge credibility problem. This new program will do nothing to help it. Look at the comments already. TSA really need to go back and look at the fundamentals and what is really needed for travel security. A program such as this one could be feasible but as said above the given that the many of the TSOs the public interfaces with on a day to day basis have been hired on very on very standards it does not help.
To me the only way out of some of this mess it have another program take it over. Such a program might be useful not just at airports but any large gathering of people. For instance, FAM though part of TSA is on the law enforcement side. As such they have higher standard for training and employment. If left as part of the security screening program then forget it no matter how well trained.