Chertoff: “Novel” Israeli Security Methods Coming to U.S. Airports

May 30th, 2008

Mmm hmm.

Via: Reuters:

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on Thursday he will seek to adopt novel Israeli methods, like behaviour-detection technologies, to better secure America’s airports.

“That’s a scenario where Israel has a lot of experience,” Chertoff said in an interview with Reuters. “I think that it is of interest to us to see if there is any adaptation there.”

Israel’s Ben-Gurion International Airport, known for its strict security measures, relies heavily on techniques that detect suspicious behaviour among travellers.

Chertoff said such methods, as well as Israeli technologies that detect explosives, are some of the things that may help protect U.S. airports and other public places against attacks.

Chertoff, at a conference in Jerusalem for public and homeland security ministers from around the world, signed an agreement with Israel to share technology and information on methods to improve homeland security.

One of the new systems presented at the conference, developed by the Israeli technology company WeCU, uses behavioural science, together with biometric sensors, to detect sinister intentions among travellers.

The U.S. homeland security chief said that not all methods developed and used in Israel, such as questioning every passenger, are practical in larger U.S. airports.

Israel’s Ben Gurion handles about 9 million travellers a year while major U.S. hubs, like Chicago O’Hare, see some 76 million passengers.

4 Responses to “Chertoff: “Novel” Israeli Security Methods Coming to U.S. Airports”

  1. eyelight says:

    Israel controls American airport security anyway, just like it controls US phone line billing, oh, and the media etc…

    Chertoff is a long time Israeli stooge parachuted into a job.

  2. profmarcus says:

    watch a REAL interviewer on al jazeera totally eviscerate chertoff while it all rolls off chertoff’s back like water off a duck… i think the guy is an audioanimatron… he doesn’t display a single trace of humanity…

    part 1
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=7W49wRvkSlE

    part 2
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=nwvAOEovHgE

  3. Eileen says:

    My gawd, is Chertoff a skeletore sitting there in the ytube interview or what?
    I had to turn the thing off. I find myself sick to my soul watching this man, he disgusts me so intensely. Cripes, I find myself yelling such inane things to this guy. Straighten your tie, sit up, put some skin on your freakin bones. Quit acting like you are the one who was in a concentration camp. JUST SHUTUP.
    I comfort myself that this man will be uh, looking for a new job, my gawd I get down on my knees and pray that he will be looking to find a moldy rock to crawl under come November, lest the hordes of people who might finally wake up to what this man represents will turn on him. Ya Chertoff, those who told the French citizenry to eat cake met the maker in the cruelest way.
    I guess Chertoff hasn’t run out of ways to shit on ordinary people. This man represents what happens when you give a position of power to a person who lusts to weild their reverse order persecution complex. Like Israel does with the Palestinians, this guy is doing with the U.S.
    This man should be ashamed of himself. Truly ashamed. Like spying on Americans like this is something NORMAL. Spraying his spittle while he rants on about all of the cases, how many, 3 people that the U.S. has filed terrorists charges against, and those are all freaking bogus. Meanwhile subjecting millions of Americans to his paranoid-schizophrenic-sadistic worldview where all humans are somehow bent on doing evil. You know, those Katrina and Rita Hurricans sufferers. They asked for the trouble, they brought it upon themselves.
    Chertoff is hitler in skeletore victim clothing. Don’t believe one word that comes out of his mouth.
    Its enough of him ready. ENOUGH. Will the U.S. ever be what is was before Chertoff and the likes of him came along?
    GRRR

  4. Larry Glick says:

    The guy is definitely a creep. Reminds me of a modern version of Josef Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister.

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