Is THAT what they were doing in DFW (and apparently still are) as I wrote about a few months back? I wondered what the TSA was doing "helping" with the ID checking. I must not have been suspicious looking because I wasn't pulled aside.

I did go through a "demo" of sorts of this last year when the MA State Troopers introduced the program that had been in use at BOS for a while. It was interesting but I didn't get a feeling for how effective it would be. The question of profiling came up and the Trooper skirted it very smoothly.

If all TSA can brag about is how many "regular" crooks they have been catching, I don't think this is a program suitable for TSA. They should be looking at transportation security and leave the rest to regular LEO. There is a very thin line around the "general consent" to screening and I'm afraid this can very well cross that line.