Comparing TSA's tactics to El-Al's

"As the government continues to try to make air travel safer ... former Israeli intelligence agents and security gurus have set up shop in the United States, peddling strategies that have worked for decades in a country under near-constant threat.

"Some say Israeli interrogation tactics would never work in America. For one thing, the U.S. air fleet is 227 times the size of El-Al and could never withstand the delays. Others say Americans would not stomach Israeli methods, that profiling and random questioning conflict with U.S. civil liberties."
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