Boy, I hate it when debates degenerate to this kind of back-and-forth. Just want to interject that each country has the right to decide what "rights" a traveler has while in their jurisdiction. I think some here would like to believe that American law should apply everywhere, including the American Bill of Rights. That may seem valid in criticizing what TSA does at airports. But when you land at CDG, you are gonna be screened according to local law (as I learned in doing that stop). Whether it agrees with other countries is not really debatable. People who don't like this variation have to learn to choose their flights carefully. Also, whatever you think of the Nude-o-scope, any country has the freedom to choose it to screen or not. A traveler's opinion of it is a marginal issue.

My only hope is that they come up with some suite of tools that works and still gets people through screening in an expeditious way. I still think something less complex than what we have today would have stopped September 11's perpetrators.