re: Trusted Traveller
You got me thinking again. (Shame on you!) What would have kept Mohammad Atta (etal) off the Trusted Traveller list?
I have a friend who had the same name as a terrorist, and he just filled out a form that said he's not a terrorist, and he was removed from the airline watchlist.
We focus on the machines to check your ID....but we haven't talked at all about whose ID gets put on "the checklist" and who can be taken off.
If I just wanted to make people "feel" safe, I'd put expensive fancy machines out on the floor. If I wanted to make people "BE" safe, I'd profile and sneak-n-peak and put out a watchlist at topless bars and radio shacks and such!
based on my travels, I get the impression EVERYONE is being photographed as they pass through customs. This is in addition to the other cameras.
This is not the lame, 9/10 efforts.
We are moving fromt the PC profilers to the actual competent customs agent who kicked that one guy back.
Our biggest problem is the 5th columnists inside who advocate making sacrifices at the temple when there are tigers at the city gates.