TSA Agents: Anti-Terrorist Program Targets Blacks and Latinos

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3. I'm flying out of Logan later this week - hope they aren't planning to do any CYA

numbers-cooking by stopping a bunch of random white guys... ( )

Beyond the profiling, I was really bothered at the idea that TSA is using criminal and immigration referrals as any measure of success. That's not the mission of the agency at all, and I hate the notion of them using airports (and now bus, train stations, etc) as 'sieves' to seek out potential non-terror-related arrest possibilities.

I'm also pretty weirded-out by the whole notion of this 'behavior profiling' - it doesn't seem like particularly sound science, and I don't like the idea that it should be 'normal' for me to discuss my trip and my travel plans and who knows what else in a faux-casual conversation with a government agent. As a private, introverted, anti-police-state, nervous-flyer type traveler, I suspect my general demeanor might push the envelope in general as far as that kind of testing goes...