The officer successfully went through TSA body scanners with the hidden gun each time she tried.

[TalkingDog]

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local-beat/TSA-Agent-Slips-Through-DFW-Body-Scanner-With-a-Gun-116497568.html

An undercover TSA agent was able to get through security at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport with a handgun during testing of the enhanced-imaging body scanners, according to a high-ranking, inside source at the Transportation Security Administration.

snip

The TSA insider who blew the whistle on the test also said that none of the TSA agents who failed to spot the gun on the scanned image were disciplined. The source said the agents continue to work the body scanners today.

Wansley said that is a problem.

[xchrom]

1. Recommend

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Good God!

Oh, and the scanners are all about keeping us safe, right?

Sure.

:eyes:

Recommended.

[ThomCat]

12. Once more we get definitive proof that it's not about safety.

• When they loose 100+ badges that give unrestricted access to secure areas, and they don't immediately change the badges or even consider this a significant issue
  
  
• When they lose key cards that grant access to restricted areas, and don't know it for months, and don't know if they have changed those electronic codes
  
  
• When contractors are able to enter and leave restricted areas without ever going though security, carrying large closed packages that never get searched, and it is found that many of them never even go though routine background checks,
  
  
• When they admit in news articles that they have warehouses full of tens of billions of dollars of security equipment they simply don't use any more, because it was all supposed to be cutting-edge new and either it didn't work nearly as well as expected, or it has already been replaced by something new and more expensive (provided by a company half-owned by Director Chertoff, so he has a personal profit motive for warehousing so much stuff and buying more),
  
  
• When we keep hearing repeatedly that their "random" screenings in these imaging machines really means examples like: an entire girls high school sports team while everyone else passes by, or several young attractive women in a row while none of their male family members or older female relatives were chosen,
  
  
  
  Then we can absolutely certain that they are only accidentally searching for security risks. Providing security is not their priority.

• Exhibiting and enforcing their authority is one of their priorities.
  
  
• Getting a good look (with photo souvenirs) at beautiful naked women to make their day more interesting is one of their priorities.
  
  
• Creating a cursory illusion of security, no matter how unreal, to satisfy the public's need to feel that something is being done is one of their priorities.
  
  
• Creating a profit-making environment for contractors and their investors, and creating the appearance that the DHC is an engine for economic growth is one of their priorities.
  
  
  But providing real security is no place on this list of real priorities.

[indepat]

18. You've brilliantly detailed an example of the sheer hypocrisy that has to be rampant at the highest

levels in a multiplicity of federal endeavors to shackle, flimflam, and distract the sheeple. :patriot:

[Canuckistanian]

3. State of the art equipment

Minimum wage operators.

And WHY are we hearing this from a whistleblower? And why no firings or disciplinary actions?

[itsrobert]

4. Maybe people don't have the time to analyze the scan?

Meaning there is pressure on the workers get people through the screening quickly? And the government doesn't want to hire even more employees?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Well, if they don't have time to analyze the scan...

Then they shouldn't be doing them in the first place...

:shrug:

[TalkingDog]

6. +1 n/t

[itsrobert]

9. You are right

I didn't say they should. It's extreme overkill you ask me. If the bad guys want to take down a plane, these security measures are pointless.

[demigoddess]

7. another waste of money!!! boy, republicans sure can throw it away

right??

[lib2DaBone]

8. The TSA is not about keeping Terrorists out....

..it's about keeping the American people in.

Those who trade freedom for security obtain neither..., etc, etc, etc.....

[conspirator]

16. +1. It's about reducing the social mobility of the masses. Only rich people can

have the previlege of travelling painlessly

[JohnyCanuck]

10. $44 billion for Homeland Security to purchase hundreds more naked body scanners

(NaturalNews) The Obama administration recently announced its $3.73 trillion dollar budget plan for the 2012 fiscal year beginning on October 1. The new budget includes a more than $44 billion allocation for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to purchase 275 more naked body scanners to be installed at U.S. airports, despite continued outcry from health experts and the public about the machines' safety hazards, threats to personal privacy, and complete ineffectiveness.

Up three percent from last year's budget, the DHS allocation is just the start of the Obama administration's efforts to have 1,275 naked body scanners installed in airports by the end of 2012. The plan disregards the numerous testimonies from security experts who have dubbed the machines "useless," and say they fail to detect explosive materials any better than conventional scanners.

"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines," said Rafi Sela, former chief of security at the Israel Airport Authority and expert in airport security. "I can overcome the body scanners with enough explosives to bring down a Boeing 747. That's why we haven't put them in our airport."

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/031358_naked_body_scanners_federal_budget.html#ixzz1ESXzbDex
See also: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110214/ap_on_re_us/us_budget_agencies_summaries_5

"I don't know why everybody is running to buy these expensive and useless machines". You mean Michael Chertoff was telling nose-stretchers when he recommended these machines to the US government? I'm shocked. I am sure an honorable person like Mr. Chertoff would not use his influential government connections to sell useless shit to the government on behalf of his business clients (who co-incidentally manufacture these nudy picture, radiation machines).

[PoliticAverse]

13. "Follow the money"... n/t

[Fumesucker]

11. No one could have predicted..

That a multi billion dollar security system would utterly fail at its ostensible intended purpose.

[backscatter712]

14. It's not about security.

The oligarchs don't really care about airport security. It doesn't bother them much when a gun gets through the scanner - hell, that actually helps them, because then they can claim justification for even more repressive measures.

It's all about intimidation - the oligarchs want the TSA in place just to send the simple statement to the public "We can fuck with you any time we want."

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

15. well, they aren't looking for guns...

their looking for boobies,

[ck4829]

17. Probably hid it on her ankle or something, and they aren't looking there.

[arikara]

19. All they ever do is torment sick people

and senselessly muck around with their medical devices. That and perversely peep at girls. Have they ever found anything at all that could possibly be construed as a weapon? Not to mention the possible cumulative health consequences of being x-rayed needlessly. What a bunch of dickheads.