TSA ‘ignored warnings’ on cancer cluster
Breaking News, Headlines, Liberty Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
By Kate Taylor, TG Daily
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) says it’s got evidence that the Department of Homeland Security has failed to properly evaluate the level of risk from airport body scanners.
In a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the DHS, EPIC says it’s obtained documents concerning the scanners’ radiation risks, including agency emails, radiation studies, memoranda of agreement concerning radiation testing programs and the results of some radiation tests.
EPIC says that TSA staff have been concerned that a large number of workers have been falling victim to cancer, strokes and heart disease. But the documents show that the TSA’s response was simply to tell them: “Because TSA systems comply with federal regulations, the increased risk of developing radiation-induced cancer in later life is extremely small, no greater than other risks people routinely accept in their daily lives”.
“One document set reveals that even after TSA employees identified cancer clusters possibly linked to radiation exposure, the agency failed to issue employees dosimeters – safety devices that could assess the level of radiation exposure,” says EPIC.
“Another document indicates that the DHS mischaracterized the findings of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, stating that NIST ‘affirmed the safety’ of full body scanners.”
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Wait, so the government callously neglected the health and safety of its employees? Not to mention the traveling public?
When will our fellow Americans learn?
These scanners have got to go!
Interesting how even when they mention the dangers to the brain, they mention only cancer. Strange how no one mentions that radiation of such a high frequency mushes that gray matter as well as distorting the brainwaves that are entering the brain normally just to operate and be in contact with the physical world. This does not happen years down the line, but immediately. So when you walk through those scanners, your brain is being fried right then and there, but no cancer is maybe being formed at all. The employees might have that as a partial excuse for the way they are pervertively acting.
How nice, huh?
Rhonda