Additional airports to get full-body scanners, feds say

[William33 110]

The imaging machines are being funded through the Obama administration's $862 billion economic stimulus plan.

I don't find this stimulating at all.....How in the world is this related to economic stimulus anyway? Also, take note of the male image in the link.....Particularly, the mid chest area....

(CNN) -- The federal government is starting to deploy full-body scanning machines to 11 airports across the United States, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced Friday.

Forty body-imaging machines already have been put into use at 19 airports nationwide as part of a field test, according the Department of Homeland Security. The Transportation Security Administration expects to deploy 450 units by the end of this year.

"By accelerating the deployment of this technology, we are enhancing our capability to detect and disrupt threats of terrorism across the nation," Napolitano said in a statement.

The first of the new units are being installed Friday at Boston's Logan International Airport, according to a DHS statement.

The list of other airports set to receive the scanners by the end of summer includes Chicago O'Hare International, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International, Mineta San José International, Los Angeles International, Port Columbus International, Oakland International, San Diego International, Kansas City International and Charlotte Douglas International.

The imaging machines are being funded through the Obama administration's $862 billion economic stimulus plan.

Under existing protocols, full-body scans are optional at airport checkpoints. Travelers who decline the scans are funneled to a location where they may be given a pat down and subjected to other tests such as swabs that can detect minute traces of explosives on hands or luggage.

The TSA said most passengers prefer a body scan to a pat down. But others have objected to the body scans, calling them electronic strip searches.

Passenger privacy is maintained during the scannning process by blurring all images, deleting images after they are viewed and placing the screener viewing the images in a remote location, according to DHS officials.

Acting TSA Administrator Gale Rossides testified before Congress on Thursday that the machines will not significantly slow the passenger screening process, saying it will be done at the same time as carry-on baggage screening.

The TSA has spent years testing full-body imagers. Plans to deploy them this year were given added urgency after the arrest of a Nigerian man, Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, who has been accused of attempting to detonate an explosive sewn into his underwear on a December 25 flight.

Field testing of full-body scanners already is under way at the following 19 airports:

• Albuquerque International Sunport Airport

• Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

• Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport

• Denver International Airport

• Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

• Detroit Metro Airport

• Indianapolis International Airport

• Jacksonville International Airport

• McCarran International Airport

• Los Angeles International Airport

• Miami International Airport

• Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

• Raleigh-Durham International Airport

• Richmond International Airport

• Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

• San Francisco International Airport

• Salt Lake City International Airport

• Tampa International Airport

• Tulsa International Airport

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/03/05/body....dex.html?hpt=T2

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

How to get through a full body scanner with a bomb:

Get a hollow prosthetic limb....

[William33 110]

How to get through a full body scanner with a bomb:

Get a hollow prosthetic limb....

You saw the photo then....

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

**, Tampa? So now I'll have to book my travel via Orlando. **.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

The first of the new units are being installed Friday at Boston's Logan International Airport, according to a DHS statement.

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The list of other airports set to receive the scanners by the end of summer includes Chicago O'Hare International, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International, Mineta San José International, Los Angeles International, Port Columbus International, Oakland International, San Diego International, Kansas City International and Charlotte Douglas International.

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Field testing of full-body scanners already is under way at the following 19 airports:

• Albuquerque International Sunport Airport

• Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

• Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport

• Denver International Airport

• Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport

• Detroit Metro Airport

• Indianapolis International Airport

• Jacksonville International Airport

• McCarran International Airport

• Los Angeles International Airport

• Miami International Airport

• Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport

• Raleigh-Durham International Airport

• Richmond International Airport

• Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport

• San Francisco International Airport

• Salt Lake City International Airport

• Tampa International Airport

• Tulsa International Airport

I find the absence of any of the airports serving the NYC metro area very interesting. Not one of the three majors and not even Philly, Hartford, Atlantic City or Allentown.

Edited March 6, 2010 by w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r

[chri'stina 190]

I believe Tampa had it already when we flew out of there a year ago(not sure), I did notice something like it and didn't really see anyone being asked to go in it. Guess I will find out in a couple weeks if they are asking more people to go through it.

Edited March 6, 2010 by chri'stina

[mawilson 2,133]

I find the absence of any of the airports serving the NYC metro area very interesting. Not one of the three majors and not even Philly, Hartford, Atlantic City or Allentown.

You'd think NYC would be #1 to implement this moronic false-sense-of-security feature.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I find the absence of any of the airports serving the NYC metro area very interesting. Not one of the three majors and not even Philly, Hartford, Atlantic City or Allentown.

How about I offer the machines destined for Tampa for any one of your airports up there? LGA, preferrably. I tend to avoid that one anyways.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

You saw the photo then....

oh lol, yes it looks like has a huge...talent... that or he has some sort of parasitic alien there.

[chri'stina 190]

I looked up online, an article written two years ago talks about the scanners going to Tampa within a few weeks, so they have already been there awhile.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Well I'd probably say no to the scanner and opt for a pat down personally. I've had the intense security check once because the guy at checkin thought I was flying one way to the UK I think, when in fact I was on my return flight. But I did have a US passport so I guess I understand.

I remember getting a full pat down, I stood in sealed machine that blew air over me (I guess to check for trace explosive particles). Then they swabbed my laptop and bag along all of the seams (again probably for explosive particles?). They did a thorough check of my shoes and coat. It took about 4 minutes maybe?

Edited March 6, 2010 by Sousuke

[Kevin and 10]

It will only a matter of time before the safety measures on a machine fail and someone is exposed to high level radiation.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I looked up online, an article written two years ago talks about the scanners going to Tampa within a few weeks, so they have already been there awhile.

I've gone through Tampa several times over the last couple of years and have never noticed any such device. Do you have a link to the article?

It will only a matter of time before the safety measures on a machine fail and someone is exposed to high level radiation.

We'll just write that off as taking one for team, I guess. This ####### just pizzes me off.

[mawilson 2,133]

It will only a matter of time before the safety measures on a machine fail and someone is exposed to high level radiation.

Or better still, a suicide bomber blows himself up inside the machine, instantly turning himself into a dirty bomb.

Now THAT would be ironic!

[chri'stina 190]

For Mr Big Dog:

http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=86800

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/oct/14/ta...ecurity-imagin/