Originally Posted by N674UW

Flew out of DTW a few days ago and got the podium interrogation - I wasn't aware of the pilot program going on so I was a bit off-guard for this asinine experience...gave the screener my US passport and both my boarding passes for my flight to ATL and my final destination, and the screener started with:

"Hi, my name is (screener's name), and I'm going to ask you some security-related questions"

"Where do you live?"
(Ontario, Canada)

"What do you do there?"
(student)

"Are you going to Atlanta (my connecting point)?"
(no)

"Why are you going to (destination city)?
(Visit my parents over the holidays)

"So since your parents live there, did you use to live in (destination city) then?"
(no)

"Where did you live then before you moved to Canada?"
(discourse on my life's history after I graduated college in 2007)

"Ok, go ahead"

Laughable experience in the extreme...this tactic might work in Israel where they know what they are doing and are damn good at it, but applied en masse to our fine uneducated friends in the TSA? Very disturbing thought...