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TSA Full-Body Scanners: Protecting Passengers Or Padding Pockets?

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Pilots hate them. Passengers who avoid them get a groping. They’re the TSA full body scanners presently deployed at airports near you. Their effectiveness is unclear. What is clear is that lobbying for them makes you a ton of money. (www.gizmodo.com.au) Mais...

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desperado50
desperado50 0
That's the whole idea. Big, fat, government contracts. How much to you think the con artists that talked someone into building a fence along the Mexican border are making at $15 million a mile? What irks me the most is that these people are the ones who whine the loudest about taxes and big government.
ThunderHaus
ThunderHaus 0
How true you are... follow the money. The people that developed the scanners are the ones smiling as the TSA deploys them. Most of these folks probably fly on private charters.

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