TSA SPOT Program: Billion Dollar Magic 8 Ball
November 16th, 2013Via: GAO:
Available evidence does not support whether behavioral indicators, which are used in the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques (SPOT) program, can be used to identify persons who may pose a risk to aviation security. GAO reviewed four meta-analyses (reviews that analyze other studies and synthesize their findings) that included over 400 studies from the past 60 years and found that the human ability to accurately identify deceptive behavior based on behavioral indicators is the same as or slightly better than chance. Further, the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) April 2011 study conducted to validate SPOT’s behavioral indicators did not demonstrate their effectiveness because of study limitations, including the use of unreliable data.
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2+ year old article
ABC video:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/spot-tsa-airport-security-program-catch-terrorist/story?id=14062893
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Last year, the TSA was responsible for over 9,000 checkpoints across the United States, a number set to increase thanks to the agency’s bloated budget and its expansion beyond anything vaguely related to transportation.
Hitler’s SS would be in awe of the DHS/TSA … Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR), SPOT, TrapWire, Crime Point IP Network Surveillance …
Incidentally try to login to this one:
http://www.crimepoint.net/login.php
No wonder the US is bankrupt; spending billions on technology slowly enslaving humankind in a prisonplanet.
It is said 2077 is the new 1984 – The new science fiction show ‘Continuum’
http://www.scribd.com/doc/88908068/Liber8-Manifesto
As Mr. Jones says …
I pray the answer to 1984 is 1776
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