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 LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 02: Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents screen passengers at Los Angeles International Airport on May 2, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. Security presence has been escalated at airports, train stations and public places after the killing of Osama Bin Laden by the United States in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)  

Democrats bemoan TSA ‘chat downs’

1:00 PM 08/16/2011
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Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee dubbed a new Transportation Security Administration behavior-detection program set to begin Monday as “chat downs.”

The lawmakers renewed their criticism of the TSA tactic, drawing an obvious comparison to the agency’s controversial pat-downs and hand searches.

The TSA was expected to begin testing the program for 60 days at Boston’s Logan Airport. Under the proposal, travelers will be interviewed to assess suspicious behavior by their reactions to certain questions.

Full story: Democrats deride new TSA behavior-detection program as ‘chat downs’

Tags: Democrats, House Homeland Security Committee, TSA
  • Tmurf 1

    Any means within the law to keep passengers safe is OK by me.  Why not a few questions?

  • http://www.facebook.com/sommer.gentry Sommer Gentry

    I have absolutely nothing to say to any blue-shirt child molesting fascist bully.  These depraved “screeners” take money to rub children’s genitalia, to create naked images of unwilling participants, to sexually humiliate people who are not even suspected of wrongdoing.  I would never degrade myself to speak to a thug like that in a civil tone.  How about you get your filthy pervert hands out of my underwear, and then we can discuss things like adults, huh?  Until then, I will continue to treat these monsters as they deserve to be treated: worthy only of our contempt and rage.

  • Anonymous

    I wonder what the outcome will be in these “chat downs” if a TSA agent tries to engage the typical teenager in conversation, only to be greeted with the usual grunting and “Yah,” answers the rest of us get? 

    I predict a lot of family vacations being ruined or delayed at the whim of some uber-authoritative TSA folk.

  • SimpleDaylight

    This really seems like a colossal waste of time.