Wednesday, January 05, 2011
"The naked truth about scanners"
Homeland Security seems to have some ugly issues...
Roger Simon recently reported at Politico.com:
"Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, was interviewed Sunday by CNN’s Candy Crowley, and Napolitano said nothing was going to change 'for the foreseeable future.'
'You know, we’re always looking to improve systems and so forth,' Napolitano said. 'But the new technology, the pat-downs, is just objectively safer for our traveling public.'
But Crowley decided to screen and pat down that assertion.
Citing an ABC report, Crowley said, 'There are some major airports who had a 70 percent failure rate at detecting guns, knives, bombs, that they got through in your tests…. So how good can it be when you have major airports with a 70 percent fail rate?'
Napolitano dismissed those results as old and questionable and said, 'Let’s set those aside.' One of the real successes of the machines and procedures, Napolitano said, is that they discourage terrorists from even trying to get on planes."
