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Claim: TSA “Mischaracterized” Safety Of Full Body Scanners

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
June 27, 2011
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Submitted by Hank on Mon, 06/27/2011 - 10:46
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It's easy to hate the government.  It's a faceless bureaucracy that can easily grind you down to nothing if you are on the wrong side of it.   But there are higher orders of contempt reserved for the select few, even in government, and TSA is that.

No one really believes TSA ia making anyone safer, since they can't profile the people most likely to be a threat and instead resort to making 95-year-old women remove their adult diapers because, you know, geriatric grandmothers in diapers bombed the twin towers 10 years ago.

Plus, they have the new porno-scanners and went about their defense all wrong - no one is convinced they know what they are talking about and x-ray scanner lobbyists ten-folding their spending is never a great sign.

Alex Jones InfoWars site now says the TSA may know even less than we suspected and they “publicly mischaracterized” the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, in stating that NIST had positively confirmed the safety of full body scanners in tests.

It seems even NIST didn't like the way TSA was portraying their involvement in insuring the safety of these scanners. 
  
And TSA has not released the tests under Freedom of Information Act requests, saying they are still reviewing the documents to ensure they do not contain any sensitive information that could be a threat to national security.  After all, if strangers in an airport don't look at your jubblies, the terrorists win.

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