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Title    Your Own Private TSA
Date    Saturday December 06 2014, @04:23PM
Author    LaminatorX
Topic   
from the that-silly-agency dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/12/06/093244

tt0081455 writes:

A government surplus vendor has Rapiscan Backscatter Body scanners listed for sale on ebay. The price - just $8K. Brand new they were $160K. These are the same units that were affectionately dubbed "porno scanners" before the TSA bowed to public pressure and yanked them out of commission. You might remember Rapiscan as the company that hired former Department of Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff as a way to guarantee their place at the trough full of sweet, sweet tax dollars.

Links
  1. "listed for sale on ebay." - http://www.ebay.com/itm/111519265986
  2. "yanked them out of commission." - http://boingboing.net/2013/01/18/tsa-terminates-its-contract-wi.html
  3. "hired former Department of Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff" - http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/airport-scanner-scam
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