TSA deploys "Behavior Detection Officers"

They’ll be watching your facial expressions and body language. They’re the TSA’s newest semi-secret weapon against possible terrorists and bad guys of all sorts - the Behavior Detection Officers. You may not know them when you see them:

The watcher could be the attendant who hands you the tray for your laptop or the one standing behind the ticket-checker. Or the one next to the curbside baggage attendant…The strategy is based on a time-tested and successful Israeli model, but in the United States, the scrutiny is much less invasive, Ekman said. American officers receive 16 hours of training — far less than their Israeli counterparts — because U.S. officials want to be less intrusive.

Read the entire story from McClatchy Newspapers.