Chertoff Exploits Detroit Plane Bomb to Stir up Business for Client

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Chertoff Exploits Detroit Plane Bomb to Stir up Business for Client
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
Former Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff has been all over the airwaves since the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas Day, advising the nation that it should invest in full-body scanners for airports. What Chertoff failed to mention in numerous television interviews is that his consulting business currently represents the company, Rapiscan Systems, that makes the scanners.

Chertoff first became familiar with Rapiscan’s technology while running the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under President George W. Bush. In 2005, Chertoff’s agency purchased 40 body scanners for installation at 19 U.S. airports. He then left the administration and formed his own security consulting business, the Chertoff Group.

Earlier this year, the DHS’ Transportation Security Administration (TSA) purchased 150 machines from Rapiscan for $25 million, and in the wake of the Christmas Day incident, TSA is expected to buy another 300 scanners.
-Noel Brinkerhoff



http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/Chertoff_Exploits_Detroit_Plane_Bomb_to_Stir_up_Business_for_Client_100105

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:wow:

That is $166,666 per machine

[Atman]

1. No machine on earth actually cost $17 million, unless you can get the Govt to pay for it.

No fucking way - NO FUCKING WAY - one of these scanners actually costs anywhere close to $6 million, let alone $16 million. No fucking way. It's just more war profiteering by the Republicans.

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[Botany]

2. Thanx I redid the math $166,666 per machine

I misread the answer ..... I be dumb

25,000,000/150 approximately = $166,666. I wonder what Chertoff's cut per machine?

[bleever]

3. I heard this on Stephanie Miller this morning.

She has excellent sources.

[Botany]

5. nothing about the notorious U.F.A. and the story adds up.

All inbound flights to the U.S. must submit a passenger list to the TSA and the notorious U.F.A.
was traveling under his own name and he was on a watch list too.

Keith Olbermann listens to Steph and he will be all over this story tonight.

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4. Chertoff stirs up Detroit plane bomb plot to sell his client's scanning machines. n/t

[Shallah Kali]

6. They wouldn't have worked according to a British MP who worked for a compay that makes same type sca

scanners-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8439285.stm


Airport body scanners 'unlikely' to foil al-Qaeda - MP
A computer screen showing the results of a full body scan
Electromagnetic waves are beamed onto passengers to create a 3-D image

Airport body scanners would be "unlikely" to detect many of the explosive devices used by terrorist groups, a Tory MP has warned.

Ben Wallace, who used to work at defence firm QinetiQ, one of the companies making the technology, warned it was not a "big silver bullet".

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Mr Wallace said the scanners would probably not have detected the failed Detroit plane plot of Christmas Day.

He said the same of the 2006 airliner liquid bomb plot and of explosives used in the 2005 bombings of three Tube trains and a bus in London.

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Mr Wallace - an ex Army officer - was employed by QinetiQ as their overseas director in the security and intelligence division before being elected to the Lancaster and Wyre seat in 2005.

There is a big but... in all the testing that we undertook, it was unlikely that it would have picked up the current explosive devices being used by al-Qaeda
Q&A: Security checks at UK airports
Ben Wallace MP

He said the "passive millimetre wave scanners" - which QinetiQ helped develop - probably would not have detected key plots affecting passengers in the UK in recent years.