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Old Apr 4, 2008 | 6:37 pm
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The propaganda machine is in full swing. So, out of 104,000, they sent less than 9% to law enforcement, 700 were arrested, and only the one Jamaican had bomb parts (which wouldn't have even been accessible to him.... nor was it any threat to the aircraft or passengers).

In the meantime, just like the watch list, a whole lot of people were interrogated for no good reason.

In most businesses this would be considered a dismal failure.

Many more _ about 9,300 _ revealed something during the screening process that caused the TSA to call in law enforcement for a more thorough investigation.

About half of those passengers weren't suspected of any particular crime, but behaved suspiciously enough that screeners thought police should be called anyway. More than half of the other referrals involved people carrying fraudulent documents, the TSA said. A small percentage involved drugs, contraband currency, immigration violations, or discoveries that a passenger was wanted by police.
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