Airport Scanner Manufacturer accompanies Obama to India

[soryang]

http://investors.osi-systems.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=530184

OSI Systems Chief Executive Officer Joins US Presidential Visit to India


HAWTHORNE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- OSI Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: OSIS), a vertically-integrated provider of specialized electronic products for critical applications in the Security and Healthcare industries, today announced that Deepak Chopra, Chairman and CEO, was selected to accompany US President, Barack Obama, to Mumbai and attended the US India Business Entrepreneurship meeting, which was held by the US India Business Council (US IBC). The goal of the meeting was to promote further trade between US and India.

Deepak Chopra, OSI Systems President and Chief Executive Officer, stated, "I am honored to be selected to play a role in this very important cause. Currently the trade between US and India is only one tenth of the amount of trade between US and China. There is substantial opportunity to improve the trade relations with India for mutual economic gain."

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http://www.osi-systems.com/

Rapiscan Systems is the manufacturer of the controversial "naked body scanner" purchased for US airports with economic stimulus funds. OSI systems, Inc., owns Rapiscan Systems.

Former head of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff is a lobbyist for Rapiscan Systems.

[ananda]

1. Boy, how much does that suck?

Let me count the ways.

[jefferson_dem]

2. No way!

They actually attended the same meeting as POTUS! ... In India even!!!11!11!(one)

[lib2DaBone]

3. The War On Terror has ALWAYS been about $$ PROFITS $$

Haliburton..Blackwater...Scanner Companies.. Arms Dealers... corrupt politicians funding both sides of the conflict.

Thet's why the USA is bankrupt.

[chimpymustgo]

7. You nailed it.

[5X]

4. Makes me see the president in a whole new light.

This is Chertoff's company, right?

[soryang]

5. Rapiscan is a client of the Chertoff Group

http://publicintelligence.net/the-chertoff-group/

The Chertoff Group Jan 10 2010

Co-founded by former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and Chad Sweet, former Director of Operations for the CIA
Leadership team includes General Michael V. Hayden, former Director of the CIA and NSA, as well as Charles E. Allen, a former Assistant Director at the CIA and architect of DHS intelligence structure
Advocates for the usage of body-scanners for airport security, while maintaining clients which include manufacturers of body-scanning systems
The Chertoff Group is a private consultancy company founded by former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. The company’s site describes its activities as advising “corporate and government clients on security and risk management issues”. The Group is based in Washington and has offices in New York, however, it does not openly publish the location of these offices on its website. The Chertoff Group’s leadership team is mostly comprised of former high-level employees of the DHS, CIA, NSA, and FEMA.

[truedelphi]

9. Thanks for posting. n/t

[AzDar]

6. K & R

& :puke:

[jonnyblitz]

8. Deepak Chopra? hmmm, I guess it pays to be friends with Oprah.

Oprah knows people. :D

[progressoid]

10. Different guy.

Deepak Chopra

Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President
OSI Systems, Inc.
Hawthorne , CA
Sector: TECHNOLOGY / Semiconductor Equipment & Materials
Officer since May 1987
59 Years Old
Deepak Chopra is the founder of the Company and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a Director since the Company?s inception in May 1987. He has served as the Company?s Chairman of the Board of Directors since February 1992. Mr. Chopra also serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of several of the Company?s major subsidiaries. From 1976 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1987, Mr. Chopra held various positions with ILC, a publicly-held manufacturer of lighting products, including serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operating Officer of its United Detector Technology division. In 1990, the Company acquired certain assets of ILC?s United Detector Technology division. Mr. Chopra has also held various positions with Intel Corporation, TRW Semiconductors and RCA Semiconductors. Mr. Chopra holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics and a Master of Science degree in Semiconductor Electronics from Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh, Punjab, India and a Master of Science degree in Semiconductor Electronics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

vs

Deepak Chopra
Born October 22, 1946 (1946-10-22) (age 64)
New Delhi, India
Nationality American (born Indian)
Occupation physician, public speaker, writer


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. It's a different Deepak Chopra.

http://people.forbes.com/profile/deepak-chopra/61002

[Skittles]

12. DISGUSTING

[JohnyCanuck]

13. This is also being reported at Raw Story

Body scanner CEO accompanied Obama to India

SNIP

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.

The original orders for body scanners were made in 2005, during the Bush administration when Chertoff was still head of Homeland Security. Chertoff stepped up his lobbying for body scanners late last year after the attempted Christmas Day bombing.

"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 ' explosive," Kate Hanni, founder of FlyersRights.org, told the Washington Post.

"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."