And if you refused to be blasted with radiation, you received a groping from some guy with an 8th grade education...

The T & A aficionados finally admit that sizing travelers up doesn´t matter.

Not that there wasn´t plenty wrong with it.

But no more T & A employees´ bets on how travelers might measure up.
So it´s the feel-good story of the year... s/o

Well, I wonder how many bucks are going down the drain with this one?

With some working familiarity of the base technologies, backscatter and millimeter wave, there is a bit of a downside in terms of detection capabilities. The lesser technology is deemed acceptable because it can be sufficiently dumbed down to address privacy concerns but it comes with a cost in being able to find those things which are being sought as potentially harmful. The real issue is using the technologies as a "one-size-fits-all" to inconvenience the traveling public at large rather than using the best detection technology only on those "profiled" individuals who have a high likelihood of being a threat. Of course that is another issue.

Setting aside [not easy to do!] the critical matter of the TSA taking an almost-perfectly-incorrect approach to security from the beginning, and the bull-oney of Hillary´s "to professionalize, you must Federalize" propaganda/union-vote-buying back when, and dealing just with the scanner issues....

Any kind of pre-adoption testing would have revealed [and all-but-certainly did reveal] the riot of serious shortcomings and problems with the machines and the process. The TSA agents´ more-than-cottage-industry of "Psst! Want some hot pics? I got thousands!" was discovered long ago, but -- then what?

So all that and much more as groundwork -- yep. Not only did we [taxpayers, travelers] pay for all this, now we get to pay again to take them out of service.

So tell me -- would you really be opposed to the [pre-deleteds] who pushed all this, who went ahead error after error, bad decision after bad decision, with not just hands in our pockets, but backhoes extracting our money, would you really object to them being sued for literally every penny they have? Being left to live in a ´fridge box on the sidewalk -- preferable in some cold, rainy northern city?

I mean, the alternative is fence rails, tar, and feathers. Then again, giving ´em a good dose of both has lots of appeal....

They would not have given this up unless they already had something better. Never trust what these people say.
Do the taxpayers get a refund? Will they be sold to schools and local courthouses? Voyeur web sites maybe?

Can I have my picture back?

Good. That´s a start. Now, if we can get Janet Incompetentano removed....

See ya at the airport in July.

Me thinks they have discovered hard evidence that these machines cause cancer... Either that or they have decided to retire these machines to your local grade school to "prevent gun violence." I´m with #6.

Are the ones that are going the ones that emit the most radiation?

I had to go through one of those generic image scanners once. As I stepped out I could see the image on the screen and it indicated "something" in the area of my left wrist. I was wearing a short sleeved shirt and a mostly plastic wrist watch. They patted me down anyway. Buffoons.

Good. Less radiation.

My daughter takes well over 100 flights per year and worries about the various scanners - both machines and human.

That worry may or may not be justified but it is still worry.

But, like gun control, we probably will never have a perfect solution.

How many billions of our dollars were wasted on these pieces of ####? Will the scanners be thrown in the govn closet with the trillions spent on `computer systems` that never worked?

Why not donate them to the local jail ?