Tuesday, January 25, 2011 9:19:09 AM
TSA Caught In More Radiation Lies
AxXiom For Liberty
January 24, 2011
TSA claims about the safety of its radioactive full-body scanners are falling apart — and now, even the agency’s pals are backing away.
Here’s the deal: In a desperate attempt to prove those scanners are safe, the TSA named all sorts of agencies and organizations that it claimed was helping to test and maintain them.
Just one little problem: That was news to all those organizations and agencies.
Even the FDA wants nothing to do with this one — a spokesman told AOL News that, despite TSA claims to the contrary, it has no role in testing the machines or inspecting the manufacturer.
They couldn’t even do it even if they wanted to — since the machines aren’t medical devices, they’re outside of the FDA’s legal authority.
That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of the FDA setting limits on itself!
In addition to the FDA, the U.S. Army Public Health Command, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the Health Physics Society all quickly backed away from the TSA’s assertions that they had somehow signed off on the safety of these machines, according to the AOL report.
Sounds like the TSA might be adding some new names to its “enhanced patdown” list.
Even the TSA’s own parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, isn’t helping out here — because it refuses to release its own safety report on the full-body scanners.
I’m sure we’ll see that report one of these days… just as soon as they’re done fabricating it.
If the idea of an untested radioactive device being used to zap millions of innocent American travelers doesn’t bother you, maybe this will: They’re easily fooled.
A new report in the Journal of Transportation Security — yes, we now live in a world that needs a scientific journal for transportation security — finds that the “structural noise” of the human body can interfere with the scans just enough to hide a “pancake” of explosives taped to the abdomen.
And no amount of radiation would ever find it.
“Even if exposure were to be increased significantly, normal anatomy would make a dangerous amount of plastic explosive with tapered edges difficult if not impossible to detect,” the researchers wrote.
Congratulations, America. You just bought a dangerous, intrusive, and expensive new security system — and it doesn’t even work.
http://douglassreport.com/2011/01/23/tsa-radiation-lies/
AxXiom For Liberty
January 24, 2011
TSA claims about the safety of its radioactive full-body scanners are falling apart — and now, even the agency’s pals are backing away.
Here’s the deal: In a desperate attempt to prove those scanners are safe, the TSA named all sorts of agencies and organizations that it claimed was helping to test and maintain them.
Just one little problem: That was news to all those organizations and agencies.
Even the FDA wants nothing to do with this one — a spokesman told AOL News that, despite TSA claims to the contrary, it has no role in testing the machines or inspecting the manufacturer.
They couldn’t even do it even if they wanted to — since the machines aren’t medical devices, they’re outside of the FDA’s legal authority.
That’s the first time I’ve ever heard of the FDA setting limits on itself!
In addition to the FDA, the U.S. Army Public Health Command, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the Health Physics Society all quickly backed away from the TSA’s assertions that they had somehow signed off on the safety of these machines, according to the AOL report.
Sounds like the TSA might be adding some new names to its “enhanced patdown” list.
Even the TSA’s own parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, isn’t helping out here — because it refuses to release its own safety report on the full-body scanners.
I’m sure we’ll see that report one of these days… just as soon as they’re done fabricating it.
If the idea of an untested radioactive device being used to zap millions of innocent American travelers doesn’t bother you, maybe this will: They’re easily fooled.
A new report in the Journal of Transportation Security — yes, we now live in a world that needs a scientific journal for transportation security — finds that the “structural noise” of the human body can interfere with the scans just enough to hide a “pancake” of explosives taped to the abdomen.
And no amount of radiation would ever find it.
“Even if exposure were to be increased significantly, normal anatomy would make a dangerous amount of plastic explosive with tapered edges difficult if not impossible to detect,” the researchers wrote.
Congratulations, America. You just bought a dangerous, intrusive, and expensive new security system — and it doesn’t even work.
http://douglassreport.com/2011/01/23/tsa-radiation-lies/
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