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Romulus
01-05-2010, 01:03 PM
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/01/02/group_slams_chertoff_on_scanner_promotion/


WASHINGTON - Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports.
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What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. Chertoff disclosed the relationship on a CNN program Wednesday, in response to a question.

An airport passengers’ rights group on Thursday criticized Chertoff’s use of his former government credentials to advocate for a product that benefits his clients.

“Mr. Chertoff should not be allowed to abuse the trust the public has placed in him as a former public servant to privately gain from the sale of full-body scanners under the pretense that the scanners would have detected this particular type of explosive,’’ said Kate Hanni, founder of FlyersRights.org, which opposes the use of the scanners.

Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners - five from California-based Rapiscan Systems. Rapiscan is one of only two companies that make full-body scanners in accordance with current contract specifications required by the federal government.

Currently 40 body scanners are in use among 19 US airports. The number is expected to skyrocket, at least in part because of the Christmas Day incident. The Transportation Security Administration has said it will order 300 more machines.

In the summer, TSA purchased 150 more machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds. Rapiscan was the only company that qualified for the contract because it had developed technology that performs the screening using a less-graphic body imaging system, which is also less controversial. (Since then, another company, L-3 Communications, has qualified for future contracts, but no new contracts have been awarded.)

-- Washington Post

Brian4Liberty
01-05-2010, 04:10 PM
Shocking! :rolleyes:

Deborah K
01-05-2010, 04:19 PM
Whorebag that he is. I remember when we were protesting out in front of the Federal Reserve, I saw his silly ass drive by us. Actually, he was in the back of a black SUV. He had this smirk on his face as he wizzed by us.

This is all about control. If they really were concerned about bombs going off on the planes, then get bomb sniffing dogs. And let the pilots and attendants carry weapons, and put an air marshal or two on each plane.

This is about completely stripping us of our privacy and morale. This is worse than any other form of privacy invasion. And the sheeple are just taking it in stride.

Kotin
01-05-2010, 04:19 PM
chertoff looks like a fucking zombie.

Romulus
01-05-2010, 04:42 PM
every single one of the douchbags are in on it. each with their own little corner on the market. if I ever have to fly, there's no way in hell I'm going thru one of these scanners.

catdd
01-05-2010, 05:36 PM
chertoff looks like a fucking zombie.


Chertoff means "son of the devil" in Russian.