I do not understand why the TSA uses TADAR.Tadar system uses millimetre-waves to detect and identify suspicious objects hidden under clothing. It is named after the Brazilian Tadarida bat as it uses waves to detect and identify objects hidden under clothing in the same way that the bat uses high-frequency signals to navigate and locate insect prey in the dark.
Are bombs a real threat? You’d never know it from the TSA; they make a point out of clustering airline travelers, WITH LUGGAGE, into a bomb-friendly kill zone just before the “security” checkpoint. Could they arrange the queues into a less clustered shape, could they move the screening equipment into smaller clusters (so that any individual line for screening has fewer people), could they put up solid barriers in the queue to reduce the damage one bomber could do? Of course they could ... but the TSA chooses to arrange things in a manner that would maximize the number of casualties were a terrorist to detonate a bomb before the “security” screening area.
If bombs really are a problem, are there there safer bomb detection systems? Sure. TADAR might be one. Dogs might be another. Electronic “sniffers” of various types are another. Out of all those, however, the TSA chose to deploy a technology that emits ionizing radiation, and thus has at least some chance of slowly killing (via cancer) those who are screened.
I think that people’s motivation can generally better be determined by what they do rather than what they say. The TSA says it’s trying to increase safety. It’s choices, however, consistently favor an approach that is more likely to be lethal to the travelers, rather than an approach that is more likely to be safe. Those choices, not their empty words, reveal the real motivation of Ms. Napolitano and the TSA.
Once you see Ms. Napolitano’s real motivation, then the reason for failure to deploy TADAR, or other millimeter wave scanning, or to allow pilots to be armed, or to implement pre-airport screening (”trusted traveler”) becomes obvious. Failure to deploy TADAR is exactly to be expected.
Because Butch and her minions are completely bats!