{"id":3684,"date":"2009-12-29T13:14:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T12:11:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T12:11:47","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3684","title":{"rendered":"Another move toward full body image scanning at airports coming?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In light of the underwear bomb<\/a>, on Politico.com by Glenn Trush is Will Chaffetz amendment haunt House?<\/a> where libertarian conservatives and some liberals voted against the use of full body scan airport imaging in a TSA appropriations bill. It died in the Senate without coming to a vote.<\/p>\n

Back in early June, Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz inserted a little-noticed, widely popular amendment into the House’s massive Homeland Security appropriations bill barring the use of full-body image scans as “primary” screening tools at airports.<\/p>\n

The amendment, which died in the Senate, passed on a bipartisan 310-to-118 vote, with conservative libertarians joining liberals, all decrying the scans as a major invasion of privacy. The amendment was backed by a nearly irresistible coalition of interest groups, ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n

It would also have given passengers the option of getting a pat-down \u2014 which might have also detected the Christmas bomb \u2014 while banning the storage and copying of the images, which show a virtual picture of a person’s naked body.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See HR 2200, \u00a7 215 (June 4, 2009)<\/a>:<\/p>\n

SEC. 215. LIMITATIONS ON USE OF WHOLE-BODY IMAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR AIRCRAFT PASSENGER SCREENING.<\/p>\n

Section 44901 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:<\/p>\n

“(l) Limitations on Use of Whole-Body Imaging Technology for Screening Passengers–<\/p>\n

“(1) IN GENERAL- The Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security (Transportation Security Administration) shall ensure that whole-body imaging technology is used for the screening of passengers under this section only in accordance with this subsection.<\/p>\n

“(2) PROHIBITION ON USE FOR ROUTINE SCREENING- Whole-body imaging technology may not be used as the sole or primary method of screening a passenger under this section. Whole-body imaging technology may not be used to screen a passenger under this section unless another method of screening, such as metal detection, demonstrates cause for preventing such passenger from boarding an aircraft.<\/p>\n

. . .”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other TSA news, the person nominated to be director of TSA, a former FBI Agent and counterterrorism expert, has been held up in the Senate<\/a> by Sen. DeMint (R.-SC). He’s on Wolf Blitzer’s show on CNN this afternoon to talk about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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