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Old Sep 16, 2013 | 12:03 pm
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Originally Posted by jkhuggins
This TSO wasn't doing anything that was a threat to commercial aviation. If the BDO program is only supposed to be focused on threats to commercial aviation, there's no reason a BDO should've found this individual.
Neither is 99.99% of the population, yet here we are.

Ignoring the validity of SPOT techniques, TSA is the one that made it about more than aviation by claiming detection of common criminals. If it didn't want to be held accountable to that standard, it never should have brought it up.

TSA made the bed. They need to lay in it.
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