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TSA to test its airport scanner operators for radiation exposure
After years of rebuffing health concerns over airport scanners, the Transportation Security Administration plans to conduct new tests on the potential radiation exposure from the machines at more than 100 airports nationwide. But the TSA does not plan to retest the machines or passengers. Instead, the agency plans to test its airport security officers to see if they are being exposed to dangerous levels of radiation while working with the scanners. (www.latimes.com) 기타...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Several of us that fly long haul flights, especially polar routes, have used them to collect data. The company dismisses the data as unreliable because they don't want to have to do anything about it.
I can see the parasite lawyer adds on tv now. "If you have flown in the last 2 years you may be entitled to compensation" I thought there were no exposure problems with these machines? Chertoff said so.
Well if they find anything how much you wanna bet they'll cover it up as quick as they notice it?
Exposure concerns are a red herring.
The real problem with these machines is that they don't necessarily work, and that they're a multi-billion dollar fleecing of US taxpayers.
Who is TSA KIDDING? They've got a scanner at one checkpoint, but NO scanner at the one right next to it. They've got scanners at some airports, but not others...
Hmmm, it'd take some real brains for a terrorist to work around that.
Meanwhile, explosives sniffing dogs can do as good a job at a fraction of the price.
Oh, but of course there isn't some corporation standing to rake in billions from the government for the deployment of dogs.
That's what this is about. Follow the money, not the radiation.
PS
The real problem with these machines is that they don't necessarily work, and that they're a multi-billion dollar fleecing of US taxpayers.
Who is TSA KIDDING? They've got a scanner at one checkpoint, but NO scanner at the one right next to it. They've got scanners at some airports, but not others...
Hmmm, it'd take some real brains for a terrorist to work around that.
Meanwhile, explosives sniffing dogs can do as good a job at a fraction of the price.
Oh, but of course there isn't some corporation standing to rake in billions from the government for the deployment of dogs.
That's what this is about. Follow the money, not the radiation.
PS
no joke, it's all about the $ and the corporate lobby!
They are definitely behind the airplane on this issue.