Dear America, I Saw You Naked
More than a million people saw the video within a few days of its being posted. Finally, the public had a hint of what my colleagues and I already knew. The scanners were useless. The TSA was compelling toddlers, pregnant women, cancer survivors—everyone—to stand inside radiation-emitting machines that didn't work.
Officially, the agency downplayed the Corbett video: "For obvious security reasons, we can't discuss our technology's detection capability in detail, however TSA conducts extensive testing of all screening technologies in the laboratory and at airports prior to rolling them out to the entire field," an agency representative wrote on the TSA's official blog. Behind closed doors, supervisors instructed us to begin patting down the sides of every fifth passenger as a clumsy workaround to the scanners' embarrassing vulnerability.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/tsa-screener-confession-102912_Page3.html#ixzz2sCGhMzcE
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