Why Is Michael Chertoff So Excited About Full-Body Scanners?

[notesdev]

Heading up the renewed push for those controversial, clothes-penetrating scanners at airports is former homeland security secretary Michael Chertoff. His consulting firm represents companies who make the scanners, but you wouldn't know it from reading the papers.

The Underpants Bomber alerted the world to the possibility of terrorists putting bombs in their underpants. So now everyone is debating whether we should deploy scanners which can see through clothes and show bombs nestled close to terrorists' nekkid bodies. Michael Chertoff, who was Bush's homeland security secretary from 2005-2009, is a huge fan! Yesterday he told NPR:

"A couple of years ago we began the process of testing them to see, first of all, if they worked and second, if they could be deployed without unduly restricting the flow of traffic. And the good news is that we were able to demonstrate that they were successful. We could use them without slowing up traffic and we could also protect privacy."

But when Chertoff launched into his pitch for full-body scanners on Campbell Brown tonight, we learned that he is paid by the very companies who make the penetrating devices:

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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.

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http://gawker.com/5437499/why-is-michael-chertoff-so-excited-about-full+body-scanners

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How convenient that a need suddenly appears for his clients' otherwise-worthless inventory!

[WhiteTara]

1. it's the only way he can see

women's bodies? No woman in her right mind would disrobe in front of that vampire.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Michael Chertoff looks like a human X-ray.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Same principle seems to hold true for the enirety of US foreign policy...

>>>>How convenient that a need suddenly appears for his clients' otherwise-worthless inventory! >>>>

... post WWII.

War without end , amen.

[glowing]

4. Now, I beleive it was a set up terra plot. If every airport is getting these expensive

body scanners to undress you as you travel, then someone's stock portfolio is going up... AND wasn't it convenient he put the bomb in his "junk". Like I want some perv telling me to stand there just a little bit longer because they are liking the sight from the other side.

[Mr LesinDC]

5. They all just want to make money

If they really wanted to protect us from these kinds of
threats they would deploy these types of machines in the
foreign airport hot spots and not in the domestic ones. If I
go to another country I have to follow what ever security
measures they have. The fact is the terrorists are coming from
out of country, very rarely do they come from within. This
country needs to start protecting our rights as citizens at
home first and then abroad. If we make it harder to bring
these types of devices on international flights we can stop
99% of this crap. Oh yeah what happen to the passengers bill
of rights?