The fact is that the GAO works for Congress. They take direction from committees and conduct the audits that committees direct. The reports are delivered to the committee. All it takes is for Congress to agree with the findings and recommendations of the GAO SPOTNik audit and defund the program.

Of course, this will never happen. We and our elected representatives have become afraid of our own shadows and consider young brown men (or anyone who even looks like one) at or near an airport to be a bigger threat to the nation's survival than 5000+ Russian nuclear missiles controlled by a Communist regime during the Cold War.

Police agencies at all levels love the SPOTNik program because they can arrest and convict all sorts of people with evidence obtained from TSA interrogations and "administrative" searches that would be highly illegal for any real cop to perform without consent pretty much anywhere.

Shame on us for allowing it to happen.