Have any of you ever flown through Schipol in Amsterdam? Security is at each gate, so instead of waiting through long lines leading to every terminal, you simply find your gate and go through security there, leading to a lobby where you wait/board. besides the normal scanners (x-ray for bags and the little blower/sniffer thing you stand in), they interview each passenger asking where you stayed, who you know there, etc. THIS is proper profiling, not pulling people aside because they're brown or whatever. They're trained to recognize nervous reactions or trip-ups.
Anyway, it didn't surprise me that their security measures were so farther sophisticated than we have back here it home (profilers probably don't have their own congressional lobby, unlike scanner manufacturers...), but you'd think with all of the security hysteria in the US someone would get a clue.
