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Another move toward full body image scanning at airports coming?

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In light of the underwear bomb, on Politico.com by Glenn Trush is Will Chaffetz amendment haunt House? where libertarian conservatives and some liberals voted against the use of full body scan airport imaging in a TSA appropriations bill. It died in the Senate without coming to a vote. Back in early June, Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz inserted a little-noticed, widely popular amendment into the House's massive Homeland Security appropriations bill barring the use of full-body image scans as "primary" screening tools at airports. The amendment, which died in the Senate, passed on a bipartisan 310-to-118 vote, with conservative libertarians joining liberals, all decrying the scans as a major invasion of privacy. The amendment was backed by a nearly irresistible coalition of interest groups, ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to the National Rifle Association...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on December 29, 2009 (boomark / email).