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TSA Spending $245 Million On "Second Generation" Body Scanners

Posted by Unknown on from the amtrak-promotion-program dept.

McGruber writes "Continuing its standard practice of wasting hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, the TSA has awarded an indefinite delivery / indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, worth up to $245 Million, to American Science and Engineering Inc. to deliver an unspecified number of 'second generation' Advanced Imaging Technology screening systems for use at U.S. airports. As previously reported, Jonathan Corbett proved that TSA's current nude-o-scopes are incapable of actually detecting hidden objects."

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  1. And probably an overpaid unionized workforce by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    to run them. Please, God, let Romney win.

  2. Re:Post Removed by EnergyScholar · · Score: -1, Troll

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