By Sean J. Miller - 03/26/10 06:14 AM ET
PHOENIX, Ariz. – Privacy concerns shouldn’t hinder the rapid deployment of controversial full-body scanners at American airports, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Thursday.
“Some have expressed concerns about these [advanced imaging technology] machines – that they infringe upon privacy,” Napolitano told students and faculty at Arizona State University. “But suffice it to say, many of those worries have been spurred by the continued publication of photos that were taken using older versions of the technology, not the technology that’s actually being deployed today.”
Critics of the machines have said they amount to a technological strip-search.
Napolitano insisted that her department does take privacy concerns “into account.” The Transportation Security Administration officer reading the image is now separated from the person being scanned, Napolitano said. “And I can confirm, no, the [scanning] machines do not see everything.”
She said the machines would be able to prevent the kind of attack organized on Christmas Day last year, when a Nigerian man wearing explosives in his underwear was able to board a Detroit-bound flight in Amsterdam.
The scanning machines "are an objective improvement in our ability to detect the kind of explosive used in the Christmas Day attack as well as other dangerous powders, liquids and gels that would not set off a medal detector,” she said. “And that is why we are accelerating their deployment to our domestic airports.”
Napolitano acknowledged that intruding on air travelers’ privacy could be interpreted as a propaganda victory for terrorists. Still, she said preventing another attack was the highest priority.
“We know that in times of war it’s been common place for the rights of Americans to be limited,” she said, noting history has harshly judged such measures. “But in a time of new and changing threats, we have to revise our traditional paradigms of how we think about rights and security.”
Liberty and security are not “opposing values,” she said. “You can not live freely if you live in fear."
ASU President Michael Crow introduced Napolitano, who was speaking as part of an annual lecture series, as an “architect of social change.”
A small group protested outside the theatre where Napolitano gave her address. They were speaking out against workplace raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security.
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1 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 8:56:27 PM by Sub-Driver
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Ugh. In her case that should be a relief.
Thanks Janet, for again letting our enemies know where the soft spots are.
2 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:00:31 PM by SueRae
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Let's pray Sec. Napolitano does not release a photo of herself demonstrating what the new full-body scanners show. And I use the term “full body” advisedly.
3 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:01:08 PM by dblshot (Insanity - electing the same people over and over and expecting different results.)
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Not that I would want to see the image, but I think that the Secretary should alleviate our fears by being a public guinea pig and displaying exactly how much of our privacy is invaded, If she is willing to have her image publicly displayed with her name attached, only then will I believe her.
4 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:01:33 PM by madinmadtown
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To: Sub-Driver
Her corncob remained hidden?
5 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:01:44 PM by LRS (Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
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...SHE'S RIGHT,WE CAN SEE RIGHT THROUGH HER
6 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:02:08 PM by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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I sure hope she doesn’t step in front of one of these scanners to prove it.
7 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:02:51 PM by indylindy
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“We know that in times of war it’s been common place for the rights of Americans to be limited,” she said, noting history has harshly judged such measures. “But in a time of new and changing threats, we have to revise our traditional paradigms of how we think about rights and security.”
Liberty and security are not “opposing values,” she said. “You can not live freely if you live in fear."
What kind of Orwellian doublethink is this broad saying here?
8 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:02:51 PM by Malsua
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Too bad we don’t have a mandatory intelligence and motive brain scan for her and the rest of the dumb asses in DC.
9 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:03:11 PM by WestCoastGal
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If these new scanners provide a greater level of security and are monitored outside of the line of people going through security checks, then I say bring it on. Subject everybody including witless wonders like Napolitano to the same security procedures whenever they fly. I hope it actually sees everything as that would make me feel even safer and all flying would be safer.
Nothing to hide, like this administration.
10 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:03:22 PM by kevinm13 (Tim Geithner is a tax cheat. Manmade "Global Warming" is a HOAX!)
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Seems to me that the “area of privacy” just happened to coincide with where the underwear bomber was wearing his bomb....
11 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:03:26 PM by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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Specifically, they don’t see “intent.” We need to adopt the Israeli model.
12 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:05:37 PM by IYAS9YAS (The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
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To: Sub-Driver
I guess it depends on your definition of "everything."
13 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:06:56 PM by dawn53
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My sister had to go through one, last time she took a plane trip. We decided the reason they have people viewing the scans from another room is to muffle the laughter. /sarcasm
14 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:08:05 PM by dawn53
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“I sure hope she doesn’t step in front of one of these scanners to prove it.”
While it may be nauseating to contemplate, the truth is that her assertions would carry far more weight were she to do just that. If they really don’t show anything that should concern everyday citizens, she should have no objections to volunteering to prove this in black and white, so to speak. Any inhibition on her part to provide such proof merely contradicts her claim: actions speak louder than words, etc.
15 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:15:05 PM by DrC
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Hey Nap, “YOU LIE”
16 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:16:48 PM by NeoCaveman ("workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore" SEIU's Andy Stern)
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What war is she speaking of? She and her boss have both said there is not war on terror going on.
17 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:18:28 PM by hometoroost (Proverbs 8:36 - All those who hate me love death.)
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Let's pray Sec. Napolitano does not release a photo of herself demonstrating what the new full-body scanners show. And I use the term “full body” advisedly.
It takes two trips.
18 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:19:29 PM by Vinnie (You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Jihads You)
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OK ... so you're traveling to a vacation resort with the family, including your 9 or 15 year old daughter ...
19 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:19:39 PM by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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So what kind of marker can one use to write on your body so that it is reflected back to the security screener? One could write “HI” or draw a smiley face or ....
Of course it could not be an indelible marker.
20 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:21:17 PM by finish9
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Janet, please publicly demonstrate your assurances of privacy by personally stepping into the machine
Let’s see if we can make out your bits
21 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:33:22 PM by silverleaf (Karl Marx was NOT one of America's Founding Fathers)
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So, Madam Secretary, just as a sign of good faith, let’s round up all of the sex offenders within 50 miles of your home and then let you demonstrate this machine in front of them. We’ll be sure to tell them that no one will hurt them if they choose to comment on what they see.
22 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:40:06 PM by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts soooo good!)
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The resolution on the pictures from these scanners is muted when reported in the news. The pervs and pedophiles must be lining up for these TSA jobs.
23 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 9:59:51 PM by SlaveNoMore
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Next up is a DSDF policy.
24 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 10:05:17 PM by verity (Obama Lies)
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Janet likes the Mexican approach of using Military resources to fight gangs (In other words, civilians rounded up by the military on their own soil)
25 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 10:06:29 PM by Celerity
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To: dawn53
In 2006 two female Chechen suicide bombers blew up a pair of Russian passenger planes within minutes of each other.Semtex in bra cups.
26 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 10:18:36 PM by shanover (Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.)
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Bad girl. You need a spanking.....
27 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 10:24:06 PM by scoobysnak71 (I'm light skinned with no negro dialect. Could you milk me?)
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IIRC that one is fake
28 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 10:24:06 PM by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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Didn't Sony recall the First Night Shots because they functions as a body scanner? I saw an article on how this was was done. He demonstrated with a picture of a maniac and there were privacy concerns. it could also read documents blacked out with a magic marker.
barbra ann
29 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 10:24:36 PM by barb-tex (Obama Care ls spending part of the Half trillion on Logans Merry-Go-Round)
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>”Didn’t Sony recall the First Night Shots because they functions as a body scanner?”
I remember that. I also remember hating myself for waiting too long to buy one! Seems like by the time word got out, they had already pulled them from the shelves. Too bad. lol
30 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 10:29:54 PM by scoobysnak71 (I'm light skinned with no negro dialect. Could you milk me?)
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I sure hope she doesn’t step in front of one of these scanners to prove it.
I wish she would (goose/gander thingy). The headline photo on the Drudge Report would be priceless!
31 posted on Friday, March 26, 2010 10:49:38 PM by OCC
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Priceless and very very ugly. well...at least her face would be missing
Friday, March 26, 2010
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