Posted on 12/29/2010 2:40:03 PM PST by Whenifhow
“It’s not an explosive detector; it’s an anomaly detector,” Clark Ervin, who runs the Homeland Security Program at the Aspen Institute, told the Post. “Someone has to notice that there’s something out of order.”
Which means those security employees who stare at the screens have to be sharp enough and well-trained enough to detect things that are abnormal. (And some experts think that if the explosives are flat and pancake-shaped and taped to your stomach, they could not be detected anyway, because the picture would look too normal.)
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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.
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pervert scanners won’t even find what they claim to be looking for. lol.
This was never about preventing terrorism, it has always been a plan to program Americans to give up their constitutional right to unreasonable search and seizure.. leading the sheeple down the road to totalitarianism
I can't heaaaar you... blah blah blah...
Leave my junk out of this..
No, it's a liberty-capitulating sheeple detector. Those who go through it pass the test.
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