Originally Posted by jalves
In many security related interviews, the questions and the responses are secondary to the way a person reacts to them. In the cited examples, the interviewer was trying to get a sense for the individual - are they hiding something or not?
I don't know how I acted, but I know that I was feeling pretty peeved. The AF flight we had just connected from was late, so we had run through the airport to make it to the DL flight only to be interrogated by this guy. We went through no less than 4 metal detectors (2 in Cairo and 2 in CDG) and the carry on bag was xrayed 3 times.