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May 22, 2012
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Bomb plot raises questions about airport security
The New York Times
The body scanners widely used for airport screening have raised concerns about privacy, health risks and long lines at security checkpoints. But now, a more fundamental issue is getting attention from lawmakers: Whether these scanners are effective at detecting explosives that could bring down a plane. At a Congressional hearing recently investigating how the Transportation Security Administration acquires and deploys security equipment, members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee sharply criticized the agency for spending hundreds of millions of dollars on technology that they said had not been properly tested.More

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