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Follow the money....

 

Heading up the renewed push for those controversial, clothes-penetrating scanners at airports is former homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff. His consulting firm represents companies who make the scanners, but you wouldn't know it from reading the papers.

 

http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-michael-chertoff-so-excited-about-full+body-scanners

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Follow the money....

 

Heading up the renewed push for those controversial, clothes-penetrating scanners at airports is former homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff. His consulting firm represents companies who make the scanners, but you wouldn't know it from reading the papers.

 

http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-michael-chertoff-so-excited-about-full+body-scanners

 

 

Is he making money off the government after working for the government?

 

Is this legal?

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The pilots are pissed and continue to stay pissed off!!!

 

Pilots among those dismayed at scanners, pat-downs

Growing number of pilots joining airline passengers frustrated over scanners, pat-downs

 

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Pilots-among-those-dismayed-apf-1682105194.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=

 

CHICAGO (AP) -- Airport security stops one airline pilot because he's carrying a butter knife. Elsewhere, crews opt for pat-down searches because they [color:red]fear low-level radiation[/color] from body scanners could be harmful. And in San Diego, one traveler is told he [color:red]can't fly at all when he likens an intrusive body search to sexual harassment[/color].

 

Annoyance at security hassles has been on the rise among airline crews and passengers for years, but the widespread use of full-body image detectors this year and the simultaneous introduction of more intrusive pat-downs seems to have ramped up the frustration.

 

As passengers have simmered over being forced to choose scans by full-body image detectors or rigorous pat-downs inspections, some airline pilots are pushing back. Much of the criticism is directed at the Transportation Security Administration.

 

"I would say that [color:red]pilots are beyond fed up[/color]," said Tom Walsh, a pilot and sometimes aviation security consultant. "[color:red]The TSA is wasting valuable time and money searching the crew -- who are not a threat.[/color]"

 

Even one of the nation's most celebrated pilots, Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, has detected the growing unease...

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