2010-11-22, 09:25 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/11/22/tra...Stories%29
What I love is how John Pistole tries to calm the fury by saying:
"Very few people actually receive the pat down. In spite of all the public furor about this, very few people do."
The fact this thread exists defeats the purpose of his statement, in that the pat-down is only given if people refuse to go through the new enhanced imaging scanners, which, as they OP has shown us, provide a chillingly accurate picture of the person. On top of that, the fact that one such picture exists on this thread shows the security of the photos, which has also been in question this past week as hundreds of them have been leaked online, violating the apparent rule that TSA employees must delete the picture immediately following the scan.
I don't know what the best course of action would be for now (though, as the Michigan resident Thomas Sawyer told CNN in the above article, the first change that should come is re-education of TSA employees), but when your choices as a commercial passenger are to either (1) submit to a full-body enhanced imaging scan that shows a lot more than you'd imagine, and has been an issue in the past week due to photo leaks, or (2) submit to a full-body, enhanced pat-down that will most likely be embarrassing or, in worse scenarios like that of Sawyers, detrimental to one's personal belongings, something clearly needs to be done.
What I love is how John Pistole tries to calm the fury by saying:
"Very few people actually receive the pat down. In spite of all the public furor about this, very few people do."
The fact this thread exists defeats the purpose of his statement, in that the pat-down is only given if people refuse to go through the new enhanced imaging scanners, which, as they OP has shown us, provide a chillingly accurate picture of the person. On top of that, the fact that one such picture exists on this thread shows the security of the photos, which has also been in question this past week as hundreds of them have been leaked online, violating the apparent rule that TSA employees must delete the picture immediately following the scan.
I don't know what the best course of action would be for now (though, as the Michigan resident Thomas Sawyer told CNN in the above article, the first change that should come is re-education of TSA employees), but when your choices as a commercial passenger are to either (1) submit to a full-body enhanced imaging scan that shows a lot more than you'd imagine, and has been an issue in the past week due to photo leaks, or (2) submit to a full-body, enhanced pat-down that will most likely be embarrassing or, in worse scenarios like that of Sawyers, detrimental to one's personal belongings, something clearly needs to be done.