The SPOT behavioral screening program cost nearly a billion dollars with little terror prevention.

Evidence

From 2007 to 2012, TSA also employed roughly three thousand BDOs and spent close to nine hundred million dollars on the SPOT program alone (U.S. Government Accountability Office 2013). A review of SPOT in 2010 by the Government Accountability Office concluded that despite this enormous budget, the program yielded little in terms of preventing a terrorist attack (U.S. Government Accountability Office 2013). — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 222

Categorization

• XREF: Wasteful and ineffective anti-terror spending echoes national security state critiques; could feed a piece on how security theater continues despite documented failure. — connects to: Technology-based surveillance sorts people socially rather than reducing bias. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 221; Surveillance investment creates hierarchies without reducing terrorism risk — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 678; The surveillance industry depends on racialized Muslim bodies to stay funded — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 671
• SEED: Angle: the bureaucratic persistence of failed surveillance programs as a mechanism of racialization — billions spent despite documented ineffectiveness.