The people who make the scanners used by TSA employees at U.S. airports to look at your bottom

[Joanne98]

Jun 13, 2008, 09:36

Our Axis of Logic correspondent from Egypt, Cherifa Sirry, sent us the AFP article below, for republication with the following satirical note:

“If you are planning on travelling to the United States, your picture, visa, finger prints and retina scans are no longer enough. US immigration officers can now also scan your private parts in detail for Weapons of Mass Destruction of course! If you are a person with some sense of privacy… there is no problem: your face won’t show, only your bottom will”.

Considering the absurdity and offensiveness of TSA’s purchase and use of these scanners under the pretext of “fighting terrorism” - We must ask what could be the possible motivation for the installation of these machines in U.S. airports.



Axis of Logic readers make our job as editors easy. We trust the reader’s intelligence and don’t always have to interpret the information we provide. We thought our readers might want to know a little more about the manufacturer of the Millimeter Wave Body Scanner, L3 Communications. This is the corporation that is contracted by the TSA to provide them with the scanners that enable TSA employees to look at your private parts.

L3 Communication Profits

L3 Communications issued their First Quarter 2008 financial report as follows:


Diluted earnings per share increased 19% to $1.54
Net sales increased 6% to $3.5 billion
Net cash from operating activities of $93 million
Record funded orders of $4.1 billion and record funded backlog of $10.1 billion

Major L3 Communications Contracts

L3 Communications has contracts with the following companies:


Australian defense contractor Tenix selected L-3 to provide integrated communications systems for the Royal Australian Navy’ss two Canberra-Class Landing Helicopter Dock amphibious ships.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded L-3 a blanket purchase agreement to assist with preparedness efforts for all-hazards, including bio-terrorism and pandemic outbreaks.
The United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) selected L-3 to supply an Integrated Broadcast Service, which will provide real-time intelligence capability to the MoD and its operational forces.
The U.S. Army extended L-3’s period of performance on the Linguist contract for three months to June 9, 2008. During March, Global Linguist Solutions (GLS) selected L-3 as a subcontractor to supply translation and interpretation services in Iraq under the U.S. Army’s Translation and Interpretation Management Services (TIMS) contract, and L-3 withdrew its previously filed protest with the U.S. General Accounting Office of GLS’ selection for the TIMS contract. During the three-month contract extension, L-3 will transition its linguist services to GLS.
The U.S. Marine Corps awarded L-3 a contract to supply and implement Tactical Video Capture Systems at military training sites in the U.S. and overseas.
The U.S. Army awarded L-3 a follow-on order for AN/PSS-14 advanced mine detection systems.

L3 Communications also provides the following “Government Services”:

Aviation, Maritime & Human Intelligence

The businesses in L-3’s Government Services reportable segment provide a full range of communications systems support, engineering services, information technology (IT) services, teaching and training services, marksmanship training systems and services, intelligence support and analysis services. We sell these services primarily to the DoD, U.S. Government intelligence agencies and allied foreign governments.

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Click link to seee picture of the machine

[Recursion]

1. I think the larger question is...

...where can I buy one of those machines?