This is worse than the puffer scandal of 2005. In eleven years taxpayers have wasted $80 billion dollars on TSA only to get worse results than before.

The scanner program should be halted immediately and TSA forced to correct the rampant problems in the current scanner program. The x-ray units pose a potential health risk and research has shown that the x-ray scanners could prove harmful to women with BRCA gene and cause a significantly heightened risk of developing cancer.

It is unbelievable that Congress would allow this outrageous waste of taxpayer funds given the current budget crisis. Millions of dollars desperately needed elsewhere are being wasted on TSA and its gadgets without improving security or the pitiful quality of TSA workers.

TSA won’t finish installing the current series of scanners for another year but are now planning to replace yet undelivered scanners Despite their lie here, they are replacing all of the 244 backscatter x-ray units at a cost of $45 million many of which are less than two years old.

The current scanners have not been independently tested and lawsuits are still pending on questions regarding their safety. TSA has not taken comment on the deployment of the current scanners despite being ordered by a court to do so before the end of 2012.

The court recently granted an extension to March 31, 2013 so that issue will not be resolved until late in 2013. No additional scanners should be bought or installed until that process is complete.

The public has no confidence in the agency and its employees have become the object of derision and ridicule worldwide. TSA has become its own worst enemy by ignoring the reality and mindlessly repeating the same propaganda and excuses.

Federalizing airport security has only produced rampant waste and crime by TSA which is far worse than anything seen in the airlines funded private screeners prior to 9/11.

Does anyone really feel safer having people who will rub stranger’s genitals in public for $15 an hour in charge of security?

In 2008 no one would have believed that people would allow a stranger to view a naked image of their child or permit the equivalent of a mall cop to rub their child’s privates in the middle of an airport. There were no hijackings between 2002 and 2009 without these punitive measures and they aren’t necessary now.

TSA is beyond salvage and must be replaced. There is far too much public animosity and history of abuses, failures and crimes to ever make this agency reputable.

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