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avaistheone1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-10 07:35 PM
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Chertoff and Company - The Cover Up (Body Scanners)
 
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Posted on YouTube: January 08, 2010
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Posted on DU: November 21, 2010
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 11:33 AM
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1. Chertof and this case. Hmmm... Chertoff tried to bomb plane?
Anything for a buck.
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redirish28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 08:57 PM
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2. does make one think.
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felix_numinous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 09:14 PM
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3. Unfortunately this makes too much sense.
Follow the money.
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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 10:09 PM
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4. Would be nice if we could see a picture of the well dressed,
Indian gentlemen who helped the undie bomber bypass security, but the authorities are refusing to release the video from the security cameras that would show the incident.


Detroit lawyer Kurt Haskell maintained from the beginning that he saw a well-dressed Indian man aid the accused bomber to board the plane despite the fact that he had no passport and was on a terror watch list.

"While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time,'” reported the Michigan Live news website.

FBI agents interviewed Haskell and he told them about the sharp-dressed man but officials refused to admit that a wider conspiracy was at hand, stoically maintaining the official story that Abdulmutallab had acted alone. Authorities claimed that videotapes did not show a second man accompanying Abdulmutallab and yet they refused to release any footage of the alleged bomber.

http://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/january2010/012810_official_story.htm
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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-10 10:12 PM
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5. Body scanner CEO accompanied Obama to India
The CEO of one of the two companies licensed to sell full body scanners to the TSA accompanied President Barack Obama to India earlier this month, a clear sign of the deep ties between Washington politicians and the companies pushing to have body scanners installed at all US airports.

Deepak Chopra, chairman and CEO of OSI Systems and no relation to the New Age spiritualist, was one of a number of CEOs who traveled with the president on his three-day trip to India, which focused primarily on expanding business ties between the US and the emerging Asian power.

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That a manufacturer of body scanners accompanied the US president on a foreign trip shows the extent of the ties between the industry and the US government. With anger growing at the intrusive news screening procedures, many observers have focused attention on Michael Chertoff, the former Homeland Security secretary whose consultancy, the Chertoff Group, counts OSI as a client.

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"Airport security has always been compromised by corporate interests," wrote James Ridgeway at Mother Jones. "When it comes to high-tech screening methods, the TSA has a dismal record of enriching private corporations with failed technologies, and there are signs that the latest miracle device may just bring more of the same."

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/body-scanner-ceo-obama-india/
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