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TSA Employees Finally Catch on to the Radiation Risk
USA Today reports that the TSA has failed to identify machines (not just scanners) that are emitting too much radiation. The TSA is simply not up to the job. If they couldn’t be trusted with baggage checking machines, how can we trust them to keep the radiation from the naked body scanners under control?
When investigators with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s workplace safety team visited a dozen airports in 2003 and 2004, what they found was disturbing — at least to federal airport workers.
Although most radiation levels around baggage X-ray machines were low, six of 281 machines used to screen checked luggage violated federal radiation standards, some emitting two or three times the allowed limit, the CDC found.
Perhaps most troubling, the CDC had found what the Transportation Security Administration hadn’t noticed. The TSA and its contractors had failed to identify the machines that were emitting excessive radiation — a failure that continues to leave TSA workers and some lawmakers uneasy, especially as the agency continues to deploy hundreds of controversial radiation-emitting machines to help screen passengers.
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HAHA …….
COOK the little Nazis with their own devices.