Documents Reveal TSA Research Proposal To BODY-SCAN PEDESTRIANS, Train Passangers

[Segami]

A sample streetside scan image from American Sciences & Engineering.



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Another power-elite tool to quell the masses and preserve their positions. Oh, and the tax payers shell out the costs for these expensive units which goes right back into their coffers. Can you hear the ' great sucking-sound ' now?




Updated with the TSA’s response below, which denies implementing airport-style scans in mass transit.


" Giving Transportation Security Administration agents a peek under your clothes may soon be a practice that goes well beyond airport checkpoints. Newly uncovered documents show that as early as 2006, the Department of Homeland Security has been planning pilot programs to deploy mobile scanning units that can be set up at public events and in train stations, along with mobile x-ray vans capable of scanning pedestrians on city streets.


The non-profit Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) on Wednesday published documents it obtained from the Department of Homeland Security showing that from 2006 to 2008 the agency planned a study of of new anti-terrorism technologies that EPIC believes raise serious privacy concerns. The projects range from what the DHS describes as “a walk through x-ray screening system that could be deployed at entrances to special events or other points of interest” to “covert inspection of moving subjects” employing the same backscatter imaging technology currently used in American airports.


“This would allow them to take these technologies out of the airport and into other contexts like public streets, special events and ground transit,” says Ginger McCall, an attorney with EPIC. “It’s a clear violation of the fourth amendment that’s very invasive, not necessarily effective, and poses all the same radiation risks as the airport scans.”


It’s not clear to what degree the technologies outlined in the DHS documents have been implemented. Multiple contacts at the DHS public affairs office didn’t respond to a request for comment Wednesday afternoon.


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http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/03/02/docs-reveal-tsa-plan-to-body-scan-pedestrians-train-passengers/



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[Robb]

1. This is the unacceptable, and only, way to make transportation security more than theater.

We chide TSA for "security theater," but we realize that this kind of measure, the only real way to make a facility "secure" with these technologies, is completely unacceptable.

As we used to say, the best way to keep your car from being stolen is to not park it in a neighborhood where cars are stolen. Of course, these neighborhoods often have the best little restaurants, but you can't have it all.

There is a foreign policy corollary there somewhere. :)

[IDemo]

2. Once again --

'The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.'

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Oh My God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But what about the deficit. Starve Granny to afford snooping gear?

[stockholmer]

4. TSA Viper teams & the vans date from pre-2005, the US is a police state, most just refuse to see it

they test 'new tech' in the theatres of empiric wars , then bring them home to the USA to track, trace, and database potential threats to the bankster raping of your country


Viper Teams (2005)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/13/AR2005121301709.html

Backscatter X-ray vans (2005)
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/95m-for-special-zbackscatter-scanvans-to-afghanistan-iraq-0967/

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[krabigirl]

6. Yep. Saw this on some site others would call a "conspiracy" site a few months ago.

Scary stuff.