Saturday, February 05, 2011
"The naked truth about scanners"
I guess this is a "government at work" thing.
Government just doesn't do many things well, and they rarely get any value for their money.
A 70% failure rate is probably par for the course...
Government just doesn't do many things well, and they rarely get any value for their money.
A 70% failure rate is probably par for the course...
This is part of Roger Simon's recent article 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.
In other words, the machines keep us safe even if they don’t work at all."
