I'm wish you. The agents at TLV are very good at what they do. They approach with a disarming demeanor and explain things simply. Even my crazy want to be Massad agent Mother doesn't freak out with them. They will ask what they determine is needed to make sure you're not a threat but they ask in such a manner not to entice a negative situation....something the TSA needs lessons in immediately. After going through TLV Europe is nothing and US TSA are just disrespectful. *Generalization*

I quoted the OP -- I'm curious about DL_TIDE's response to the screener's questions.

You raise a very good point. How will the questioner react if a passenger's first response to a question is to very deliberately take out his phone, recorder, etc., start recording and say something like, "The date is _____, time is _____. I am at the screening location for Concourse _______. With me is a TSA employee who wishes to question me. Agent, please state your full name for the record."? I wonder if the extensive, 4-day training course covers that scenario.

Exactly the answer I gave at HOU a while back, and the TDC asked me DY...T. He wouldn't let me through until I gave him my name. :rolleyes:

It's been out for a little over a week now.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...oning-bos.html

Will some in the government try to bait some fool into becoming a "terrorist" wannabee and send them to the airport to be caught by the TSA clowns in order to chalk up a "victory" in the "war on terror" so as to ramp up this voodoo "security" BDO dog and pony show at airports near and far?

That is a different boondoggle than the new expanded behavior detection boondoggle...no?

At HOU all the boondoggles are all now lumped into one. They chit-chat, they ask personal questions and all pretend to be BDOs. How do we separate new behavior detection from old behavior detection? For that matter, how do we distinguish anything from anything if we don't know what the SOP is in the first place? Sigh.

I need a drink. I think I'll pull out a couple of mini-bottles now.

Salud! :p

It's based on the north Korean doctrine.

Weren't we told in some thread that that's not true, that such people are sent to the WTMD?

In the comments section, "Ray" really hit the nail on the head:

It's starting to sound like another "don't mess with my author-i-tay" approach. You know, retribution for when you don't follow silly, unpublished rules, or when you try to exercise your rights.

Humpfh! Why bother going to that much trouble when they can just claim (as some do now) that terrorists haven't blown up any airplanes because they are obviosly so intimidated by this voodoo magic "security" procedure, that they know they would be caught if they even tried. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

So someone identified as a potential threat just has to say that they are a child of the DDR times and came from a family shattered by the regime and have repressed memories of crossings at Marienborn and being monitored by the Stasi in childhood and then they are simply no longer a threat?

This sounds like a very good improvement in security...

:confused:

The entire program is an utter waste of time and an excuse to maintain TSA's bloated budget. Nothing more than another jobs program wasting taxpayer money on useless jobs for the otherwise unemployable.

For frequent fliers this will quickly devolve into the same kind of "canned" responses used to get through customs. A bunch of vague answers interspersed with a few fabrications and a grain of truth.

Expect to see yet another string of abuse stories in the news, a few lawsuits and more double speak from TSA trying to explain their way out of criticism from the public, press and lawmakers.