Agency has mothballed $14 million machines in a Texas warehouse

A TSA official was given a grilling in a House  hearing yesterday concerning information suggesting that one of the vendors of  the agency’s x-ray body scanning machines may have faked tests on software which  was supposed to eliminate naked images of passengers passing through the  devices.

The House Homeland Security subcommittee on  transportation chaired a hearing entitled “TSA’s Recent Scanner Shuffle: Real Strategy or Wasteful  Smokescre...

During the hearing, the subject of Rapiscan allegedly manipulating operational tests on the machines was raised.

As we reported yesterday, on November 9, Rapiscan received a  show-cause letter from the TSA demanding to know why the company was not  complying with the TSA’s terms in failing to develop the privacy friendly  software.

It appears that the discovery of potential faking  of test results put into advanced motion a move by the TSA to remove over 90 of  the body scanners from major airports. Initially, the agency claimed that the  machines were being moved to smaller airports to alleviate passenger queues at the bigger hubs. However, it has now been revealed that the machines, worth a  total of around $14 million, have actually been mothballed in a warehouse in  Texas.

In his opening statement Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) noted “At this  time, I’d like to insert a letter for the hearing record that I sent to  Administrator Pistole yesterday expressing concern about recent allegations of  contractor malfeasance that may have led to the failed tests that put us in this  situation. Without objection, so ordered. I hope we can get some answers today  on this extremely disturbing situation.

read full article http://www.infowars.com/house-grills-tsa-on-faking-of-body-scanner-...