Homeland Security episode
Jan 16 2007, 11:28 PM EST
| Post edited: Jan 16 2007, 11:28 PM EST
You don't know how you hit the mail on the head about Homeland Security's FEMA-type screening system. I was the press officer for the FAA's task force that developed, tested, and verified a screening system that had a "profile" as Step One. If a passenger hit no less than SIX elements of the "profile," he/she was detained. Electronic search came second. Because all passengers today are presumed to be potential Middle East terrorists, the current system never will work. A two-tiered profiled is needed; one for potential Middle East terrorists, and another that will facilitate boarding for the rest of us innocdent travelers. By the war, had the "profile" still been Step One on 9/11, all 19 terrorists would have been detained. We are not safer with the current system, merely humiliated. And, not one potential Middle East terorists has been caught since 9/11. When will Americans demand a sensible screening system as I have suggested?
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