TSA body scanners badly flawed

A passenger walks past a sign informing travelers about the use of full-body scanners for TSA security screening.

It was the end of a four-hour congressional hearing, and Florida Rep. John Mica was fuming at Transportation Security Administration officials.

The TSA had begun deploying hundreds of body scanners to prevent suicide bombers from smuggling explosives onto planes. But Mica, the Republican chairman of the House Transportation Committee, had asked the Government Accountability Office to test the machines. The results, he said, showed the equipment is “badly flawed” and “can be subverted.”

“I’ve had it tested, and to me it’s not acceptable,” Mica said at the hearing earlier this year. “If we could reveal the failure rate, the American public would be outraged.” Read more.

Are you outraged that the scanners that are supposed to keep us safe in the friendly skies are so flawed?