Originally Posted by Bart
Spiff, my personal opinion is that selectee screening is unnecessary. Either we correctly and effectively screen everyone who passes through the checkpoint or we do not.
Hmmm, maybe, maybe not. Facing the chance of a random extra screening might act as an additional deterrent, much like the chance of a random IRS audit deters people from lying on their taxes.
But the current SSSS system is like having the IRS send out a "You will be audited this year" notice with the 1040s. The people who get it won't try anything funny and get caught, and the people who don't know they are that much less likely to get caught (after all the IRS, like the TSA, has finite resources).