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If smugglers are confident wouldn't that mean they're tailoring their inspection specifically to avoid catching smugglers? Seems like a dumb strategy. I reali

If smugglers are confident wouldn't that mean they're tailoring their inspection specifically to avoid catching smugglers? Seems like a dumb strategy. I realize they can play tough guy interrogator this way and inflate their egos but the calculated reality is maybe you should just assume everyone is lying and move forward accordingly. Rehearsed confidence and iron clad stories that don't change is the territory of well prepared smugglers, not wide-eyed tourists who can barely keep their memories straight from one minute to the next. Hell I've been known to give answers in entirely different states minutes apart when asked where I'm from by regular people, because in my mind I'm frome a few places and when forced to pick one it's just kind of a dice roll in my head.

refurb 4y ago
It's a toned down version of what Israel does at their airports. I've been through it a few times and watched others get the intense questioning. Basically, people can confidently lie, but it's almost impossible to keep a story straight when ask about it multiple times from different directions by different people. During intensive questioning at the Ben Gurion airport, you'll get asked about your future travel plans, your past travel history, your family history, their employment and minute details that are hard to prepare for. Then after 20 minutes, they'll start all over again and ask you similar (not the exact same questions) and throw in a few curveballs with incorrect facts - you tell them you're flying to London to visit your aunt who lives in a house in Chelsea, then 10 minutes later they'll ask "So you said you're flying to London to visit your niece who lives in Chelsea, correct?". A normal person would say "no, like I said, I'm visiting my aunt, I don't have a niece", but someone lying likely would just say "yeah, that's correct". And basically you won't get on the plane until they are satisfied with the answers. It's very good at sussing out people out because it's too hard to keep that detailed of a story straight under hours of questioning.
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refurb 4y ago

It's a toned down version of what Israel does at their airports. I've been through it a few times and watched others get the intense questioning. Basically, people can confidently lie, but it's almost impossible to keep a story straight when ask about it multiple times from different directions by different people. During intensive questioning at the Ben Gurion airport, you'll get asked about your future travel plans, your past travel history, your family history, their employment and minute details that are hard to prepare for. Then after 20 minutes, they'll start all over again and ask you similar (not the exact same questions) and throw in a few curveballs with incorrect facts - you tell them you're flying to London to visit your aunt who lives in a house in Chelsea, then 10 minutes later they'll ask "So you said you're flying to London to visit your niece who lives in Chelsea, correct?". A normal person would say "no, like I said, I'm visiting my aunt, I don't have a niece", but someone lying likely would just say "yeah, that's correct". And basically you won't get on the plane until they are satisfied with the answers. It's very good at sussing out people out because it's too hard to keep that detailed of a story straight under hours of questioning.

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