Originally Posted by
Trollkiller
The TSA may not have thought about the human aspect because the backscatter is not being marketed as a medical device. The TSA does employ lawyers but they seem to lose more than they win in court. My guess is because it is not their money on the line they push the envelope and hope nobody notices. If it does get noticed they just say "whoops our bad, we won't do it again".
Kind of curious, what TSA policy has been over turned in court? Maybe in tired, but can't think of any... Oh, there are some stupid TSOs out there (by TSOs I mean including up to STSOs and Managers) who do some stupid things, or think stupid things, but right now at 1 AM I'm at a loss to think of policy that has been over-turned.
But the point of my previous post is this: it is very possible congress has exempt TSA from any kind of previously mentioned regulation to deploy these machines. If you really don't remember, congress was in a panic over the Dec 25th incident, and TOLD TSA to deploy many more if the machines.
If I was a sneaky, crafty TSA lawyer, knowing what TSA biologist and physists have said about the effects of backscatter, I would inform congress we couldn't deploy more units because of regulation. And if a crafty TSA lawyer did so, what are the odds congress acted upon it?
Again, this is allllll speculation. But if I ran TSA it's how I would have done it (actually I would have just deployed the MMW machines, not backscatter, but you know what I mean!).
Night. Bed calls me.
