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TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance

Posted by samzenpus on from the am-I-safe-now? dept.

rwise2112 writes "The General Accounting Office (GAO) has completed a study of the TSAs SPOT (Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques) program and found the program is only slightly better than chance at finding criminals. Given that the TSA has spent almost a billion dollars on the program, that's a pretty poor record. As a result, the GAO is requesting that both Congress and the president withhold funding from the program until the TSA can demonstrate its effectiveness."

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  1. Yep, put *this* gov't in charge of health care by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sure, that's what we need. The same government that gives us the TSA (and NSA....) in charge of health care.

    it'll work soooo well.....

  2. Re:Fuck the TSA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah disband em all. Buncha niggers!!

  3. Re:yes and no by triclipse · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    GIS flight 93 crash site and tell me a 757 crashed there. Go on.

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