Wonder how they'll take into account travelers pissed off at TSA screeners who make people wait in line for an hour before even opening the security gates to begin processing? Bruce http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2321680 <http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2321680&page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312> &page=1&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
Inside the TSA: Screening for Nervous Fliers Behavior Examined at Airport Along With Your Bags, Shoes By PIERRE THOMAS WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2006 - - The government has been quietly testing new airport screening tactics in the hopes of preventing terror attacks. Since December, security officials have deployed uniform and undercover agents at airports across the country to watch the behavior of airline passengers. A dozen airports, including those in Washington, Miami and Minneapolis, have been using a technique the Transportation Safety Administration calls "screening passengers by observation." "One of the things that we would be looking for is a person who was profusely sweating," TSA security supervisor Waverly Cousin said. Behavior deemed suspicious would also include incessant blinking of the eyes, fidgeting excessively with clothes or acting in an evasive manner. Cousin said screeners "definitely are looking for anyone who would be a suicide bomber." The idea is that a simple conversation with a person acting suspiciously could possibly foil malicious plans. "You may in fact be impeding them from getting to a certain location, perhaps to meet another person. . You are now changing field and inducing anxiety, and that's where you want to be," former FBI agent Jack Cloonan said. Boosting Screener Staff With the nation's airports on high alert, government screeners are under more pressure than ever to find potential terrorists. Against the backdrop of the London terror plot, screeners in training at Reagan National Airport in Washington today were particularly preoccupied with learning how to detect if a passenger might be trying to smuggle explosives onboard. TSA instructor Kristine Norton told the trainees that as security screeners, they are the "key to the process. "We need your keen eye and expert analysis to see the threat," she said. The training the security screeners undergo has changed to include the detection of improvised explosive devices. In the last six months, the government has increased the number of screeners who can recognize such mechanisms from 18,000 to 31,000. "We have to stay very flexible," said Earl Morris, the TSA's general manager of field operations. "The folks that we're trying to defend our country against, they're very flexible." And there is no room for a error. Copyright C 2006 ABC News Internet Ventures [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
