To find the needles, reduce the haystack

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Author(s)	Thomas E. McNamara
Source	Los Angeles Times
Date	November 21, 2010
URL	http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcnamara-airport-screening-20101121,0,3755067.story
Quote	"Instead of focusing on these factors, we need to develop a much broader profiling program that gives primacy to patterns of activities and behaviors. This profiling would not key primarily on race, ethnicity or nationality, but it would not totally ignore them either. Rather, it would rely primarily on intelligence and law enforcement and on consular, airline and other information related to an individual's recent and long-term behavior. Only after those factors were examined would others be considered"

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This item argues against the position New procedures are justified on the topic TSA airport screening procedures controversy.

This item argues for the position Profiling should be used instead on the topic TSA airport screening procedures controversy.