Your Tax Dollars Buy 0.75% Accuracy…Feeling Safer?

Here’s an interesting article, and here’s the killer part:

The teams have referred more than 40,000 people for extra screening since January 2006. Of those passengers, nearly 300 were arrested on charges including carrying concealed weapons and drug trafficking.

0.75% accuracy? I could do that well without any training at all.

Another telling thing is that the TSA won’t say if any of these people were involved in terrorist activities. They seem to be pretending that this is to maintain some sort of secrecy to protect their program.

Malarkey. If they had caught a single terrorist, they’d be hailing it as the greatest success in history.

Here’s another telling line:

David Matsumoto, research director for the Ekman Group, which conducts the TSA “micro-facial expression” training, said that micro-expressions are signs of concealed emotions and “are indications that the travelers have an emotional state that they don’t want anyone else to know about.”

And there you have it. Some company sold the TSA a program that has a 0.75% accuracy rate and they want to sell more of it. That’s your tax money paying for this worthless program. Do you think the Ekman Group wouldn’t be blast-faxing the entire world if their program had caught one would-be terrorist? They’re clearly proud of a 0.75% rate of success. Think of it: 39,700 innocent people were questioned under this program. 99.25% of all the people questioned under this program were entirely innocent.

I want my money back.