Anybody can opt out of the body scanner for a pat-down. It is completely safe and the vast majority use a generic image that completely addresses privacy concerns. Also, keep in mind that is optional. However, our nation’s aviation system is much safer now with the deployment of 600 imaging technology units at 140 airports. Quite different than John Pistole and Janet Napolitano testifying before Congress that these devices were necessary and much more effective than a metal detector. Notice he never actually disputes that items can be smuggled past a security checkpoint using a full body scanner. Here we have the TSA conceding that these machines are not all they cracked up to be. We’ve never claimed it’s the end all be all.Īnd there, folks, is the concession. ![]() With all that said, it is one layer of our 20 layers of security (Behavior Detection, Explosives Detection Canines, Federal Air Marshals,, etc.) and is not a machine that has all the tools we need in one handy device. I wouldn’t call that “extremely effective.” But I am just curious why Blogger Bob chose not to mention the woman in Dallas who smuggled a handgun through a full body scanner five times by placing the weapon in her bra. Without the full body scanners, I guess we’d just have things going “BOOM” on airplanes all the time. It’s one of the best tools available to detect metallic and non-metallic items, such as… you know… things that go BOOM. Imaging technology has been extremely effective in the field and has found things artfully concealed on passengers as large as a gun or nonmetallic weapons, on down to a tiny pill or tiny baggies of drugs. Only in the case of the nude-o-scopes, you did no such thing-see this report from the Government Accountability Office. …however TSA conducts extensive testing of all screening technologies in the laboratory and at airports prior to rolling them out to the entire field. Why? Is the technology so prone to infiltration that you cannot even share what exactly makes these über-expensive machines necessary to protect our national security and traveler safety? If the machines really worked, I would think the TSA would be happy to show exactly why and how they worked. ![]() Mission accomplished.įor obvious security reasons, we can’t discuss our technology’s detection capability in detail… I watched the video and it is a crude attempt to allegedly show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures.Įven if the video was crude (as in not professionally produced), it did not “allegedly” show how to circumvent TSA screening procedures, it did exactly that. Let’s go through them, one sentence at a time. TSA’s Iraqi Information Minister, Blogger Bob, addressed the new video “making its way around the interwebs” about why full body scanners actually make us less safe.
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