{"id":17439,"date":"2012-11-15T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T12:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=17439"},"modified":"2012-11-15T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2012-11-15T12:39:49","slug":"tsa-vendor-accused-of-faking-body-scan-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/tsa-vendor-accused-of-faking-body-scan-software\/","title":{"rendered":"TSA Vendor Accused of Faking Body Scan Software"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Joseph Watson,\u00a0Prison Planet.com<\/a> |<\/p>\n

One of the vendors that provides the TSA with x-ray body scanning machines has been accused of faking tests of software which was supposed to eliminate naked images of passengers passing through the devices.<\/p>\n

Rapiscan \u201cmay have attempted to defraud the government by knowingly manipulating an operational test,\u201d Representative Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Transportation Security Subcommittee, said in a letter to Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole Nov. 13. Rogers said his committee received a tip about the faked tests,\u201dreports Bloomberg.<\/a><\/p>\n

While L-3 Communications Holdings Inc, the other vendor that provides the federal agency with body scanners, responded to the TSA\u2019s request to write \u201cprivacy friendly\u201d software that eliminates the need to display a naked image of the passenger, Rapiscan failed to do so.<\/p>\n

On November 9, Rapiscan received a show-cause letter from the TSA demanding to know why the company was not complying with the TSA\u2019s terms in failing to develop the privacy friendly software.<\/p>\n

Rogers slammed the TSA\u2019s \u201capparent lack of oversight throughout the testing and evaluation of this technology,\u201d and is set to grill members of the agency on when they discovered Rapiscan\u2019s alleged manipulation of test results, which the company itself denies.<\/p>\n

Dan Gordon, former head of federal procurement for the Obama administration, said criminal charges could follow for Rapiscan as a result of an upcoming enquiry.<\/p>\n

\u201cFake test results are incredibly serious,\u201d said Gordon. \u201cEvery false statement is a criminal act, sending someone in that company to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n

The TSA recently relocated Rapiscan machines from larger to smaller airports, a move some quarters of the media falsely characterized as a scrapping of the devices. The TSA denies the relocation was related to the allegations of faked software tests, claiming it was fueled by the fact that the backscatter machines take longer to scan passengers.<\/p>\n

Numerous prestigious health bodies have indicated that the backscatter x-ray devices will statistically cause an increase in cancer, including\u00a0Johns Hopkins<\/a>,\u00a0Columbia University<\/a>, the\u00a0University of California<\/a>, and the\u00a0Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety<\/a>. To put that in perspective, the probability of dying in a terrorist attack is the same as the probability of getting cancer when passing through the x-ray scanner just one time.<\/p>\n

Johns Hopkins\u2019 biophysics expert Dr Michael Love warned that, \u201cstatistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays,\u201d after conducting a study of the naked body scanners.<\/p>\n

It has also been proven that the scanner\u00a0can be fooled by sewing a metallic object into the side of one\u2019s clothing<\/a>, rendering the entire $1 billion dollar fleet of machines virtually useless.<\/p>\n

Infowars is launching the national Opt Out and Film Week during Thanksgiving, November 19-26.Click here<\/a>\u00a0for more details or\u00a0click here<\/a>\u00a0for the campaign\u2019s Facebook page.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Joseph Watson,\u00a0Prison Planet.com | One of the vendors that provides the TSA with x-ray body scanning machines has been accused of faking tests of software which was supposed to eliminate naked images of passengers passing through the devices. Rapiscan \u201cmay have attempted to defraud the government by knowingly manipulating an operational test,\u201d Representative Mike […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1616],"tags":[49],"class_list":{"0":"post-17439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"category-usa-news","8":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}