FY12 Funding for Scanners
Jul 14, 2011, 7:28 pm
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FY12 Funding for Scanners
This is from Bob Poole's excellent Airport Policy News newsletter:
"when it comes to body scanners (and the associated intrusive pat-downs), the House did not go far enough. Yes, it denied the Administration’s request for 250 additional body-scanners, but it continued funding for the 1,000 still on order. That means TSA is free to continue its planned roll-out of body scanners as primary screening at all major airports, rather than repurposing the 500 body scanners already installed at 78 airports for secondary screening (for higher-risk travelers) only. The House also denied the Administration’s request for 350 additional Behavior Detection Officers, a program whose effectiveness the TSA has still not been able to justify but wants to expand anyway."
The newsletter is well worth reading. You can usually find it at http://reason.org/newsletters/airsecurity/, though the current one does not appear to be on the site yet.
"when it comes to body scanners (and the associated intrusive pat-downs), the House did not go far enough. Yes, it denied the Administration’s request for 250 additional body-scanners, but it continued funding for the 1,000 still on order. That means TSA is free to continue its planned roll-out of body scanners as primary screening at all major airports, rather than repurposing the 500 body scanners already installed at 78 airports for secondary screening (for higher-risk travelers) only. The House also denied the Administration’s request for 350 additional Behavior Detection Officers, a program whose effectiveness the TSA has still not been able to justify but wants to expand anyway."
The newsletter is well worth reading. You can usually find it at http://reason.org/newsletters/airsecurity/, though the current one does not appear to be on the site yet.
Jul 14, 2011, 11:28 pm
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This is getting so ridiculous!! Enough to ordering anymore body scanners. This must stop!! No more body scanners. This is getting waste their time to orders more bodyscanners. TSA had it enough already to installed anymore bodyscanners at airports.