Program to Spot Terrorists a $200 Million Sham

Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad was arrested after boarding a plane for Dubai, even though the government is spending $200 million a year on a program that's supposed to spot terrorists before they reach the gate. A hidden layer of airport security called "behavior detection," involves specially trained Transportation Security Administration employees whose job is to spot terrorists by looking for unique facial expressions and body language. About 3,000 of these officers work at 161 U.S. airports.. But CBS News has learned the program hasn’t caught a single terrorist. A Government Accountability Office investigation uncovered 16 people later accused of involvement in terrorist plots flew 23 times through U.S. airports since 2004. Yet none were stopped by behavior detection officers. Stephen Fienberg, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, said: "TSA is doing a number of things in the area of behavior detection and I personally think that some of them are shams." Source