TSA Naked Body Scanners Delivers 10 Times the Amount of Radiation Claimed

USA Today reports the TSA hasn't been truthful about the amount of radiation used to produce a naked body scan. Of course, in typical DHS/TSA fashion, they are playing dumb to the findings and are going to retest the scanners (spin the exposure levels).

The Transportation Security Administration announced Friday that it would retest every full-body X-ray scanner that emits ionizing radiation — 247 machines at 38 airports — after maintenance records on some of the devices showed radiation levels 10 times higher than expected.


The TSA says that the records reflect math mistakes and that all the machines are safe. Indeed, even the highest readings listed on some of the records — the numbers that the TSA says were mistakes — appear to be many times less than what the agency says a person absorbs through one day of natural background radiation.

Even so, the TSA has ordered the new tests out of "an abundance of caution to reassure the public," spokesman Nicholas Kimball says. The tests will be finished by the end of the month, and the results will be released "as they are completed," the agency said on its website.

Isn't ironic how many mistakes the TSA makes, like measuring radiation exposure and their pattern of deception that follows? If the TSA does anything good, it is spin.