TSA 'Behavioral Officers' Monitor Airport Passengers (VIDEO)

AOL Travel News:

Ah, the TSA. Just when a week or two goes by without an agent groping a child, news comes that the TSA has "behavioral indicator officers" to monitor passenger's antics while in security lines.

If you don't want to be seen as a suspicious person at the airport, what do these specialists look for?

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Comments

[stellaannfred]

09:38 AM on 04/28/2011

http://www.alternet.org/story/150767/did_you_fall_for_it_campaign_to_demonize_tsa_workers_designed_to_undermine_largest_unionization_effort_in_decades?akid=6893.266119.ywmw4S&rd=1&t=2

[Seven Teenatheart]

08:48 PM on 04/27/2011

Isn't this one of the techniques that they use quite successfully in Israel?
The last I read about it, they seemed to feel that the TSA didn't know how to implement this kind of security model...

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2010/11/amid-airport-anger-gop-takes-aim-screening

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/November/Israeli-Security-Expert-TSA-Procedures-Hysterical/

[wernerholm]

07:55 PM on 04/27/2011

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

[KIVPossum]

04:04 PM on 04/27/2011

Don't have much of a problem with it. If it eventually helps narrow the list of who is gropped and searched, it might be a good thing.

While profiling is not allowed, it should be - it is a valid tool with proven success

[T4]

06:41 PM on 04/27/2011

when they start the camps for all those people with brains like me - you will probably be eating a copy of the constitution, commenting on how you like the new smell in the air

[wernerholm]

07:59 PM on 04/27/2011

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin

There is a place for you... North Korea!

[TrucosR4Ninos]

04:03 PM on 04/27/2011

Hope no one hands these guys a file like the last time with "OBL planning to use hijakced airplanes as weapons" written on the front.

[TrucosR4Ninos]

04:01 PM on 04/27/2011

Blondes and 34C's expect to get scoped out and searched.

[Donns]

03:54 PM on 04/27/2011

Official America manages to get more stupid on a daily basis - and we the people pay for this lunacy.

[Jeffin90019]

03:51 PM on 04/27/2011

Janet's Napolitano's brown shirts are watching you. Next she'll have thought police listening to your ideas. Meanwhile, two would-be bombers made it right past these minimum wage TSA EEOC hires and nearly brought down two airplanes. Luckily, the passengers were able to avert disaster by fending for themselves -- because that inept woman thinks her system works. Fire her NOW.

[sonoffestus]

03:36 PM on 04/27/2011

Wearing too much hair gel is definitely a sign that something is not right. I mean, one could scrap it off construct a bomb and take down a plane................TSA spokesperson...........not intended to be factual, but I bet you're scared. Move along now.

[hjalmar]

03:32 PM on 04/27/2011

Just when you think it can't get more Orwellian...

[american-dolt]

03:07 PM on 04/27/2011

Thought Police are Here.

[american-dolt]

03:03 PM on 04/27/2011

I was delayed by these Nazis last time I flew. They are Useless. They are Anti-American. They need to GO, they serve NO Purpose except to warm you up to the incoming Police State.

[Rude Monk]

03:50 PM on 04/27/2011

The stated goal of paternalistic govs is to have a system where your fellow citizens control and inspect you.This way,the new elite (those who work for the philosopher king-see Plato),can enjoy their new found position.

[leorangerie]

02:47 PM on 04/27/2011

If it works, do it. If it doesn't really work, spend the money elsewhere.

[davesf]

02:26 PM on 04/27/2011

Anyone think that potential terrorists are going to stand in the TSA's line and gripe about it? Anyone think the TSA's employees are qualified for this sort of work anyway?

[sonoffestus]

03:29 PM on 04/27/2011

I always get the TSA staff mixed up with the cleaning crews walking around the airports. I believe the cleaning crews are more efficient.

[Jeffin90019]

03:53 PM on 04/27/2011

The cleaning crews are actually able to find a mess. Janet's TSA EEOC goons let two would-be bombers board planes and left the passengers to save their own lives.

[Donns]

03:56 PM on 04/27/2011

Yeah but the cleaning crews don't get to wear nifty badges and pretend that they are cops.

[KIVPossum]

04:05 PM on 04/27/2011

That's the issue - lot more ways to get access to aircraft than in the passenger aisle

[johnnyfarout]

02:26 PM on 04/27/2011

Looks to me like they would grab The Donald immediately for several reasons on the list.

[cenourinha]

03:24 PM on 04/27/2011

except he's rich and some animals are more equal than others