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U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns As It Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners - ProPublica

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:33:03 +0000

A ProPublica/PBS NewsHour investigation of how this decision was made shows that in post-9/11 America, security issues can trump even long-established medical conventions. The final call to deploy the X-ray machines was made not by the FDA, which regulates drugs and medical devices, but by the TSA, an agency whose primary mission is to prevent terrorist attacks.

Tags: #airport #cancer #health #radiation #terror #terrorism #travel #tsa

Breast cancer survivor forced into invasive patdown by TSA, even after submitting to backscatter imaging scan

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:34:13 +0000

Tags: #assholes #travel #tsa

FBI issues prosthetic pregnant belly bomb alert | The Register

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:34:45 +0000

I predict airports will soon demand childbirth at security checkpoint to prove it's a real belly.

Tags: #dhs #fbi #terror #tsa

Boing Boing: TSA donates potentially explosive liquids to homeless

Sun, 13 May 2007 19:22:12 +0000

"Could it be that the FAA ban on liquids is really a plot to rid the country of homeless people, through the use of explosive liquids?"

Tags: #911 #homeless #terror #travel #tsa

komo news | 'This Is Not Right'

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 18:25:12 +0000

"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ... you don't have any'." All for a blunt bread knife. Yeah, I feel safer.

Tags: #morons #terrorism #travel #tsa

Boing Boing: Why is American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers' friends?

Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:17:56 +0000

Another data point for my hesitation to ever take a plane to anywhere this decade, even domestically.

Tags: #faa #flight #tsa