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For a well executed security system, you need look no farther than El-Al Israeli Airlines for international flights. You are individually taken, alone, into an interview room, where the interviewer (who has complete knowledge of your name, address, your ticket, your seatmates, how and where the ticket was purchased, luggage checked or otherwise, your passport, etc.) asks you a series of questions.

While looking you square in the eye.

That's smart screening.

I remember being questioned once by a beautiful agent who, if she had wanted to do a full body search of me would have met with no objection whatsoever (but certainly a request for equal time) and during the questioning she asked me:

"Has anyone given you anything to carry on the airplane? A package? A parcel, perhaps?"

And I said "Of course not."

And she smiled warmly and said: "You mean 'of course not' that you wouldn't take such a parcel, not 'of course not' for my asking."