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The Transportation Security Administration spent $160 million on airport body scanners that have failed to detect security threats and have frustrated passengers, leading to scrutiny by lawmakers.
Out of the $160 million spent on body scanners, $120 million was spent on machines that are still used at airports across the country, Politico is reporting.
The remaining $40 million was spent on the "naked" X-ray machines, which the TSA removed from airports in May 2013 [so they claim....] after passengers were outraged over alleged privacy violations. They were also concerned about the possible health risks associated with the machines.
The scanners costed more than $150,000 each, on average, since the TSA bought the first forty-five scanners in 2008, according to numbers the TSA recently gave to lawmakers.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson reassigned the acting TSA administrator in June after it was reported that TSA screeners failed 95% of the time to detect mock explosives and weapons that undercover agents tried to get through security.
Nothing really new here. Just a different way of looking at the same farcical outrage, another excuse to ask the question of how it is that the private sector could possibly not do the job of airport security better than this, and an excuse to post the above pic.
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