You were wondering where the money was in full body scanners? Start with Michael Chertoff...

[backscatter712]

When all else fails in politics, follow the money.

When politicians and political hacks start pimping something heavily, chances are there's big money in it...

And there's money in backscatter X-ray and millimeter-wave radar full-body scanners. Digital strip search machines ain't cheap, and one of the manufacturers has a spokesman shilling those machines to the government and in the press...

Yep, it's former Homeland Security secretary Michael "Skeletor" Chertoff.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/1/1/821048/-Former-DHS-Secretary-Chertoff-Abuses-Public-Trust-by-Pimping-Body-Scanners

Second, you abuse the public trust by using your former government credentials . . .

During my time as secretary of homeland security

. . . to push whole-body imagers as the panacea for airline safety, as you have in dozens of opportunistic media interviews since the attempted Christmas bombing.

You fail to reveal in the Op-Ed that the Chertoff Group, your lame security consulting outfit, represents Rapiscan Systems, which manufacturers these scanners. You have the audacity to say that the would-be airline explosion provided

a very vivid lesson in the value of that machinery.

I can almost hear you thinking how it would have been an even greater lesson if the plane had actually exploded!

[malaise]

1. He'll be shilling with David Gregory on MTP this

Sunday

[rcrush]

2. Well I'm never flying again.

If I have to leave the state I'm going to make plans to drive now. I'm never stepping foor in an airport again.

[diamidue]

6. May not be enough.

Wouldn't surprise me to see these scanners eventually show up at Courthouses, government offices, and other public buildings. Maybe sporting events.

Why stop at airports?

[Enrique]

3. money money money money

[MineralMan]

5. You can have all that pretty, shiny money.

I'll take the green stuff made of paper. Thanks very much.

[peacetalksforall]

4. I'm not going to fly also if he is the one making the money. Shame. Shame on the

airlines and port authorities for being bought out on a product that he is selling. Shame on the WH and Cabinet?

Now, I am really suspicious about this fire.

He must have bought off the Dutch. (re - their purchase of those screeners for all flights to the U.S. - guess spending the money is better than losing traffic through Amsterdam ... sounds like a deal for an insider like that rat.)

[postulater]

7. Dogs could do the job a lot cheaper and probably better.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. Yes, they could. Makes ya wonder why the cheaper method was not used.

Instead of the highly profitable methods that benefit political cronies......
Gee, if terrorism is a profit making business, then why would anyone want it to end?

[niyad]

9. figures that the walking cadaver would be profiting from this.

[Subdivisions]

10. Well, well, well...doesn't that make the Undy-Bomber that much more convenient? n/t

[AwakeAtLast]

11. "Follow the money." A quote that always seems to be very telling.

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