Quote of the Day: Clark Kent Ervin
"...I strongly question whether five days is enough to train anybody in the intrinsically difficult art-science of behavior detection. And with all due respect to T.S.A. screeners, they are not Mossad agents. Study after study has shown them to be incapable of spotting artfully concealed weapons, and sometimes, even, inartfully concealed ones."
"So, what makes us think that screeners who can’t tell a bomb component from a curling iron can all of sudden tell whether the guy with the big frown on his face is frowning because he’s determined to kill infidels today or because somebody just dropped a suitcase on his foot?"
- Clark Kent Ervin, commenting on the New York Times' Jet Lagged Blog, regarding the TSA SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Techniques) training program.
More background on SPOT here.
posted by Fergie @ 12/30/2007 11:03:00 PM
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