Friday, May 21, 2010

So Much for THAT Approach

A team of more than 3,000 "behaviour detection" officers hired to spot terrorists at US airports have failed to catch a single person despite costing the taxpayer $200 million (£140 million) last year. [More]
What the hell--let's just put 'em all on a watchlist--something's bound to stick...

3 comments:

Brian K Miller said...

The approach is good, the training hopelessly flawed. They should have brought in El-Al and Mossad trainers. I don't know who they put in charge of training, but obviously they were not qualified.

Ken Hagler said...

It's possible that they've been completely successful. After all, there is nothing at all stopping terrorists from doing whatever they want. Given the rather conspicuous absence of terrorist attacks, it's not unreasonable to conclude that no real terrorists have passed through any airport in the US (emphasis on "real," as opposed to the phony invented-by-the-FBI "terrorists" that are periodically used to scare the gullible).

Not that I think they'd be successful if there were any terrorists around...

Anonymous said...

And we learn this from the european press?