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Excessive yawners, beware! Leaked TSA document reveals list of suspicious airport behavior

Arriving late to a flight with a confused look on your face and sweaty palms is enough to arouse suspicion among airport security screeners, according to an internal Transportation Security Administration document released by The Intercept.

On Friday, the online publication released a 92-point checklist that the TSA has reportedly used to determine if air travel passengers might pose a potential risk if allowed to board flights departing from United States airports.

The two-page document is not top-secret, but does contain an itemized, never-before-published list of traits and characteristics that TSA agents are trained to look for in accordance with the Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques program, or SPOT, initiated by the agency in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks.

Each entry on the checklist is allocated a specific amount of "points," and TSA agents are advised to refer travelers that accumulate enough to surpass certain thresholds.

A passenger who "arrives late for flight," "avoids eye contact with security," exhibits "exaggerated yawning" or appears to look pale from a recent beard shaving is allocated one point for each of those 'Stress Factors' on the SPOT Referral Report published by The Intercept. Four points is enough to refer a person for additional screening.

If combined with an "obvious 'Adam's Apple' jump" and excessive sweating, a passenger garners six points and should be referred to the police.

'Fear Factors' that are valued at two points each include "widely open staring eyes," a "cold penetrating stare" and a noticeable "contempt for the screening process."


Wow, great job. :thumb:


Source: http://rt.com/usa/244721-tsa-behavior-checklist-leak/
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Wow, great job. :thumb:


Source: http://rt.com/usa/244721-tsa-behavior-checklist-leak/
Transportation Security Administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Actually not a bad job. All the symptoms highlighted are symptom of extreme stress and not meeting the eyes is also a sign of hiding something. It is a pretty good list of behaviour guide for spotting possible nuisance maker or something more. So profiling or not, I would give good marks for this, because one cannot expect all the security people working to have advance level of intelligence to spot those signs and at least if written down they can be expected to remember the list.
 

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Actually not a bad job. All the symptoms highlighted are symptom of extreme stress and not meeting the eyes is also a sign of hiding something. It is a pretty good list of behaviour guide for spotting possible nuisance maker or something more. So profiling or not, I would give good marks for this, because one cannot expect all the security people working to have advance level of intelligence to spot those signs and at least if written down they can be expected to remember the list.
Actually only the small fishes will get, the big ones are too hardened and motivated to be caught yawning.
 

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Actually only the small fishes will get, the big ones are too hardened and motivated to be caught yawning.
Then it is useful. Every little bit helps. The smaller ones are the ones who normally carry out the actual ops, catching them would at least prevent the immediate attack.
 

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