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Report to GAO: Full body scans many not have found 12/25 underwear bomb

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In a report to the GAO of March 17, 2010, Statement of Steve Lord, Director, Homeland Security and Justice Issues submitted TSA Is Increasing Procurement and Deployment of the Advanced Imaging Technology, but Challenges to This Effort and Other Areas of Aviation Security Remain which concedes full body scan technology might not have found the Christmas Day underwear bomb: While officials said AITs [advanced imaging technology] performed as well as physical pat downs in operational tests, it remains unclear whether the AIT would have detected the weapon used in the December 2009 incident based on the preliminary information GAO has received.

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).