“Behavior Screeners”. Sure.

Posted by in Analysis on Aug 22, 2006

Are you kidding me? In case you didn’t see last week’s NYTimes article, Faces, Too, Are Searched at U.S. Airports, I highly advise you to check it out. Now, normally I don’t blog about the jackassery that goes on in airports – after all, most security experts that I talk to are all in agreement that the airline security measures are bogus, but this one is over the top! Here’s the synopsis: when you’re waiting in line to go through the insanely long security line, there are (apparently) individuals whose job it is to look for “agitated” or “nervous” individuals and give them the extra-close “latex glove” kind of scrutiny.

According to the manager of the teams,

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