Bachmann: 'Naked' Body Scan Pics Could Get Online
MinnPost reports:
Michele Bachmann won't go through the full-body scanners at airports anymore, she said, because she's concerned that "naked pictures" of herself will wind up on the Internet.
It wasn't a response to a question I or another reporter asked, rather airport security was on the mind of one Iowan at a coffee shop in Des Moines, as Bachmann began her first swing through her home state as a presidential aspirant.
"Thank you for asking that question," Bachmann concluded. "It's one on everybody's mind."Indeed it is. Former Gov. Jesse Ventura filed a lawsuit against the Transportation Safety Administration's "warrantless, non-suspicion-based offensive touching, gripping and rubbing of the genital and other sensitive areas of the body," as he put it in the suit.
And citing numerous complaints about customer service, including reaction to those pat-downs, several major airports — Minneapolis-St. Paul, Charlotte, Orlando International, Washington Reagan, Washington Dulles and Orlando Sanford among them — announced they'd begin investigating a change — replacing federal TSA agents with private screeners.
Those investigations varied in intensity — MSP's was just informal staff research at this point, while Orlando Sanford had already committed to a switch and expected to have private screeners in place later this year.
All of those reform efforts are on hold now, however, as TSA officials said they'll block any airport's request to remove the federal screeners until the agency can be satisfied that private screeners are better than its own.
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