Posted on 04/10/2011 1:50:27 AM PDT by Scanian
A Federal watchdog revealed this week that Transportation Security Administration counterterrorism specialists failed to detect 16 separate jihad operatives who moved through target airports "on at least 23 different occasions." The name of the TSA monitoring program paying for all this flying-blind failure, I kid you not:
SPOT.
Under the "Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques" plan, TSA's designated behavior detection officers are supposed to closely watch travelers who pose potential security risks and who exhibit any number of appearances or activities "indicative of stress, fear, or deception." But long-entrenched, bipartisan American political correctness hampers the kind of effective, efficient national security profiling that Israeli airline security officials practice so well.
The result? TSA's snoozing SPOT-ters catch nobody -- for fear of being accused by the grievance lobby of singling any body out.
Stephen Lord, who specializes in homeland-security issues at the Government Accountability Office, reviewed Justice Department documents showing that "in December 2007 an individual who later pleaded guilty to providing material support to Somali terrorists boarded a plane at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport en route to Somalia. Similarly, in August 2008, an individual who later pleaded guilty to providing material support to al Qaeda boarded a plane at Newark Liberty International Airport en route to Pakistan to receive terrorist training to support his efforts to attack the New York subway system."
Other terror-suspect travelers who slipped through the cracks have been subsequently tied to the 2008 Mumbai bombings;the plots to attack a Quantico, Va., Marine base and New York City infrastructure, and an attack by a Pakistani-trained American jihadi on an Afghanistan base.
Young. Male. Muslim. Traveling to al Qaeda friendly hotspots. How did these at-risk terror tourists escape scrutiny?
The GAO noted that the TSA SPOT team uses a numerical grading system that has no basis
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Without even reading the article, i will say the blind spot is that all the people that should be checked aren’t and all the Freedom loving Americans are being molested by agents of the gov’t. It’s pay back whitey time.
As a frequent traveler, I noticed a change in TSA behavior when SPOT was put in place. At first, I was optimistic that we would emulate the Israeli system of behavior profiling and add this to our repetoire.
As always, a good idea was taken by liberals and twisted into a “feel good” program that provides more money for liberal politics and does nothing to enhance citizen security.
Just like our intelligence services, and soon, our military, we will have the most ineffective, but politically correct nation in the world.
We need some Israeli’s to show us how to do it.
The buffoons at TSA use guide dogs and white canes.
I’ll wager that some (there’s always a few good apples in the barrell) TSA folks would love to do a good job, but if they do, even a spotted terrorist would be able to sue and win for “discrimination” in this insane PC climate.
See, when I flew from Houston to Dallas last month, I was backscattered, undressed, irradiated, wanded, and almost patted down, err, enhanced groping...
While they had me detained while I was trying to redress, this TSA woman came by and started up a littl echit chat session with me to delay me even futher...She asked me to give her my wallet so she could visibly search it...I asked her why, it was just screened by the machine??? I got a stern look...
During the chit chat she asked me where I was going, she interjected with her own answer to draw me out to discount her assumption, “Going to Cancun for Spring Break???”, I told her I was too old to do Spring Breaks...She kinda giggled while she was parusing the contents of my wallet...I had to stop redressing myself because I was damn sure not going to not watch someone regardless of their intent or “job”...
I thought the questioning/profiling was something different than what I had been hearing about, and untill I saw this article and discussion thread here, I just thought the overall procedure was overkill, for all the wrong reasons...
But then again this was the TSA, bow down to their WalMart IQ’s or you will be subjected to additional intrusions...
Well, I guess I was subjected to additional intrusions regardless if I protested or not...Both in Houston AND Dallas...Not that I was on an international flight going to the sandbox for any or no reason...
Like someone else said, we’d be better off hiring Israelis directly to do this job and train a few of our people to do what and how they do their work overseas...
Our money and civility would be better served if we did it that way...
Just my opinion...
You make another excellent point!!!
Do a good job and you’ll probably be promoted off the floor, or fired because you did something that they don’t want you to do, thatwould actually raise a few more red flags and actually work to catch a bad guy(s)...
Can’t have that...
I think you have the same situation in the TSA.
Slacker Central!
Janet Napolitano = Janet Reno in drag!
They were too busy giving granny a hernia check.
Islam is a religion.
It is a religion that defines how a muslime is to behave.
Behavior profiling is approved by the PC drones.
Therefore, profile muslimes.
I had a friend whose girlfriend worked for the Postal Service...She told me one time they had auditors watch and grade the physical efficiencies of each postal worker, down to the order and efficiency of how they take the mail and place it in the mail slots at apartment complex maiboxes...You know the ones that serve the whole complex...
I thought that may be a reason why we had a trend of workers going postal...Pardon the pun...
We simply will have to have a few more 9/11’s before we get serious about screening - that simple.
It’s time to whip the quiz out again.
-1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by
a. Superman
b. Jay Leno
c. Harry Potter
d. Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by
a. Olga Corbett
b. Sitting Bull
c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
2. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
a. Lost Norwegians
b. Elvis
c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
3.During the 1980’s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
a. John Dillinger
b. The King of Sweden
c. The Boy Scouts
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
4. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
a. A pizza delivery boy
b. Pee Wee Herman
c. Geraldo Rivera
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:
a. The Smurfs
b. Davy Jones
c. The Little Mermaid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ag es of 17 and 40
6.In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
a. Captain Kidd
b. Charles Lindberg
c. Mother Teresa
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
7.In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
a. Scooby Doo
b. The Tooth Fairy
c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
a. Richard Simmons
b. Grandma Moses
c. Michael Jordan
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
9.In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
a. Mr. Rogers
b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill’ s women problems
c. The World Wrestling Federation
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
10.On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers.Thousands of people were killed by:
a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
b. The Supreme Cour t of Florida
c. Mr. Bean
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
11.In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
a. Enron
b. The Lutheran Church
c. The NFL
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
a. Bonnie and Clyde
b. Captain Kangaroo
c. Billy Graham
d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
13. 2004 - Spain Railway bombings.
Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
14. 2005 London Railway bombings
Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
Nope, I really don’t see a pattern here to justify profiling, do you?
So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agentsof the President’s security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winning and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave
Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone because of profiling.
“Yep, that’s your TSA tax dollars at work: Thousands Standing Around, watching the clock while jihad jet-setters fly by.”
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