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U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns As It Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners - ProPublica

www.propublica.org
2011-11-07T23:33:03.000Z
health terror terrorism tsa cancer radiation airport travel imported:pinboard

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A ProPublica/PBS NewsHour investigation of how this decision was made shows that in post-9/11 America, security issues can trump even long-established medical conventions. The final call to deploy the X-ray machines was made not by the FDA, which regulates drugs and medical devices, but by the TSA, an agency whose primary mission is to prevent terrorist attacks.

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Breast cancer survivor forced into invasive patdown by TSA, even after submitting to backscatter imaging scan

boingboing.net
2011-10-01T18:34:13.000Z
tsa travel assholes imported:pinboard

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FBI issues prosthetic pregnant belly bomb alert | The Register

www.theregister.co.uk
2008-02-14T15:34:45.000Z
tsa fbi terror dhs imported:pinboard

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I predict airports will soon demand childbirth at security checkpoint to prove it's a real belly.

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Boing Boing: TSA donates potentially explosive liquids to homeless

www.boingboing.net
2007-05-13T19:22:12.000Z
tsa travel homeless 911 terror imported:pinboard

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"Could it be that the FAA ban on liquids is really a plot to rid the country of homeless people, through the use of explosive liquids?"

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komo news | 'This Is Not Right'

www.komotv.com
2005-06-09T18:25:12.000Z
travel terrorism morons tsa imported:pinboard

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"They said 'no' and they said it's a national security issue. And I said what about my constitutional rights? And they said 'not at this point ... you don't have any'." All for a blunt bread knife. Yeah, I feel safer.

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Boing Boing: Why is American Airlines gathering written dossiers on fliers' friends?

www.boingboing.net
2005-01-19T21:17:56.000Z
flight faa tsa imported:pinboard

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Another data point for my hesitation to ever take a plane to anywhere this decade, even domestically.

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