I personally think that any 'profiling' or BDO activities should be taken completely out of the hands of TSA. If we're going to go that route, it should be done by people in a department set up specifically for that purpose, and that department should be staffed by people who are not currently in government work. This would eliminate many of the problems TSA 'inherited' when it got staffed by rejects, trouble-makers, incompetents and retirees from other departments.

Otherwise, I don't see it ending up as anything but an ineffective, bloated, mis-managed unsupervised mess. You aren't going to get world-class profiling by doubling the pay of a few TSOs and giving them a 2-week training class that consists of videos, powerpoint presentations and 3 'buddy' exercises.

Actually, a more effective use of folks currently earning better pay as BDOs and SPOTs would be to turn them loose on the TSO ranks. If they are truly effective, that would be an easy way to prove it - much more likely to find a dishonest TSO than a terrorist statistically. That would provide on-the-job training, an opportunity to evaluate skills, get rid of BDOs and SPOTs who don't get results, and boost the morale of the good TSOs by weeding out the dishonest ones whose actions reflect badly on the organization and jeopardize citizen safety.