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Home Secretary Alan Johnson told lawmakers that body scanners would have stood a “50% to 60% chance” of detecting the explosives concealed by alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in his underwear before he boarded the holiday Northwest Airlines flight.
“If they’d been deployed, this would pick up this kind of device,” Michael Chertoff, ...
And here’s Gawker [Gawker ??!?!?!!??]—doing the job a free press ought to do:
In 2009, Chertoff founded the Chertoff Group, a security consulting agency. The Chertoff Group’s client list is unknown—Chertoff refused to talk about it in an interview—but he admits in the clip above that some of his clients manufacture full-body scanners.
Where Campbell Brown had to call him on it. [end of vid]
Posted by Claire on 01/06 at 09:39 AM
“50% to 60% chance????? I wouldn’t stake the lives of a few hundred people on those odds.
[PS: follow the story from England, where they’re rejecting scans of minors because of child pornography laws. I think that’s mainly a case of England - like a few other countries - telling us “we’re not going to put up with your incompetence any more”.]
Posted by ZZMike on 01/06/10 at 10:18 AM
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