After $900 million spent on TSA’s behavioral screening program, it isn’t working
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Close to a billion dollars spend later, TSA's lack of training -- to make sure passengers are not racially profiled -- in a very sensitive detection program is appalling, but not surprising.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration can’t justify expanding a $878 million behavior- detection program because it isn’t objective, a U.S. audit concluded (full audit embedded below).
The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general said TSA hasn’t developed adequate training for its 2,800 full- time behavior-detection officers or been able to assess the program’s effectiveness. The agency also doesn’t have a financial plan for the program.
“As a result, TSA
