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The reliability of the Transportation Security Administration’s program to weed out terrorists based on their behavior among travelers is coming under scrutiny. Doubts about the program are coming directly from within the TSA, according to documents the ACLU obtained from the agency via the Freedom of Information Act.
The ACLU report (PDF) says that the TSA’s own files were loaded with research questioning the behavior detection program. The program has cost taxpayers more than $1.5 billion to deploy 3,000 detection officers at 176 airports nationwide over the last decade.
“Academic research and other documents in the TSA’s own files reinforce that behavior detection is unscientific and unreliable,” the ACLU said. “The TSA repeatedly overstated the scientific validity of behavior detection in communications with members of Congress and the Government Accountability Office.”
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Source: Ars Technica – TSA knows its airport behavior detection program is ineffective