When will the MSM follow the dollar on airport scan scandal?

[grasswire]

It's time for an investigation.

Hell, how about a Congressional investigation?

Who authorized the purchase of these machines?

Who is making money off them?

Did those parties making money donate to certain campaigns?

Come on...this is easy pickings for an investigative journalist.

Maybe Politico could get right on it.

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[Booster]

2. Oh, I dunno. Maybe Chertoff?

[emilyg]

4. Include Soros - he sold his

shares a few days ago.

[grasswire]

5. Chertoff has no authority.

Who has the authority to order these, and where does the money trail take us?

[lib2DaBone]

3. Michael Chertoff.. Former head Homeland Security.. profiting from Scanners?

Bush lied us into war... Yellow-cake... a mushroom cloud within 45 minutes... unless we attack...

WTC-7 falls down all by itself...America rolls over and goes to sleep.. Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z

[KansDem]

8. Chertoff and Rapiscan

Michael Chertoff, Former Department of Homeland Security, is the head of the Chertoff Group, the lead cheerleader for what is being called the Full Body Scanner Lobby, reports the Washington Post and the Washington Examiner.

Ever since the Christmas Day Bomb Scare, Chertoff has been making the rounds championing the Full Body Scanners as a way to detect hidden explosive devices.

Here is a Chertoff quote from the New York Times on December 29th.“If they’d been deployed, this would pick up this kind of device,” Michael Chertoff, the former homeland security secretary, said in an interview, referring to the packet of chemicals hidden in the underwear of the Nigerian man who federal officials say tried to blow up the Northwest Airlines flight.
A few days later the Washington Post revealed that Chertoff represents Rapiscan - a maker of full body scanners drawing criticism of groups who oppose full body scanners
"Mr. Chertoff should not be allowed to abuse the trust the public has placed in him as a former public servant to privately gain from the sale of full-body scanners under the pretense that the scanners would have detected this particular type of explosive," said Kate Hanni, founder of FlyersRights.org, which opposes the use of the scanners.

Rapiscan has already sold 150 full body scanners to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), with a price tag of $25 million. Rapiscan full body scanners, like the Rapiscan WaveScan 200, seem to be the preferred scanner of choice because they obscure the "private parts."

But the fully body scanner lobby is also littered with a number of companies vying for the $300 million dollars the government has set aside for this type of technology for airports.

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Mr. Certoff is pushing these scanners. When the public resisted their use, sexual assault became the "alternative."

Now as an American, what would you prefer? A dosage of untested radiation that showed you naked, or some goon feeling your breasts and genitals?

Gotta protect the bottom line...

[live love laugh]

6. Never. nt

[senseandsensibility]

7. no

next question? Sorry, but when have they shown an inclination to investigate a corporation, especially one with rightwing leanings?