GAO Slams TSA's Jedi Skills

Did you know that the TSA has been running a Jedi Academy of sorts? It's called the SPOT program, which stands for Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques. It involves highly trained TSA Jedi (known as Behavior Dectection Officers- BDOs) picking the bad guys out of a line of passengers simply by looking at them and reading subtle body language cues. Would you be surprised that the government's own watchdog division (the GAO) has just declared the program a TSAFailure?
The TSA SPOT training program that educates it's students to see the Force aura, halo, BO, or general shifty eyes of potential terrorists consists of 4 days of classroom training and 3 days of on the job training. Luke Skywalker spent more time than that with Obi Wan and Yoda and he still had his friend frozen into a wall hanging and his hand chopped off. This is not auspicious.
By comparison, the TSA SPOT program has just under 3000 BDO Jedi in place at airports that have seen total traffic of 2 billion passengers. BDOs determined that 152,000 people were a disturbance in the force. Of those, 14,000 people were turned over to the police for further review. Of those, 1100 actually had charges brought against them, mostly for immigration violations or outstanding warrants. Are you wondering about the terrorists and practitioners of the dark side that this was designed to catch? Known terrorists passed through 8 US airports 23 times with this program in place and didn't even raise an eyebrow of a BDO. Ouch TSA! There goes your hand!
Do click through to the Full Story below for fun details like the cost of this program. We have also included a link to the GAO report which is a great read itself, with true TSAFail section headings like:
-SPOT Was Deployed Nationwide on Basis of Threat, but Without a Comprehensive Risk Assessment
-TSA Deployed SPOT Nationwide Without Conducting a Cost-Benefit Analysis...
-TSA Lacks Program Effectiveness Measures...
-Do or Do Not, There is No Try
-The Force Will Be With You... Always

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