Originally Posted by eyecue
I hear alot on here about how the TSA should use the interview process for passengers and behavioral profiling for risk management. I have a question to proffer: Isnt this the ultimate form of discretion? There is a lot of talk about abuses of authority by TSA on this board. However it appears to me that using this method of risk management ultimately puts things up for grabs on the part of the screener making that decision. Retaliatory screening would still be an issue would it not?
You are absolutely right. For a domestic flight, with the number of passengers on domestic flights in this country, it is sheer stupidity to even consider behavioral profiling.
What sounds great on paper from El Al, which bears no resemblance to flights from BOS or any other American city whatsoever, is going to turn into a bunch of hurried questions like so:
Security [S]: Boarding pass! ID!
Traveler [T]: (does it)
S: You have a Minnesota Driver's License and are flying to MIA.
T: That is correct
S: Where were you working while in BOS?
T: Downtown
S: Where did you stay while you were here?
T: A hotel
S: (shoves boarding pass and ID back) Next!
It's just as useless as the old "did you pack your bags" questions but with this new-and-improved version of questioning, which will make the sheeple breathe a sigh of relief that we're "just like El Al now", yet do nothing but waste MORE time. Great idea.
Anywho who thinks that there are 100,000+ people in this country with the same interviewing skills as the handful of people who do this for El Al is terribly mistaken.