TSA cannot ‘reasonably justify’ expansion of its behavior detection program, says DHS IG report

Government Security News: Since its inception in Boston’s Logan Airport in 2002, TSA’s program to use “behavior detection officers” to spot suspicious behavior among airline passengers had been expanded by fiscal year 2012 to 3,000 detection officers deployed at 176 airports across the country, but a recently-issued DHS inspector general’s report has concluded that TSA cannot “reasonably justify the program’s expansion.”

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