Lies, damned lies, and the US Government

Last summer, amid public uneasiness about body scanners at airline security checkpoints, the TSA claimed that "scanned images cannot be stored or recorded".  Except that, well, it turned out that they both could and did, and sometimes they even shared the scans around.  More recently, the TSA admitted that it requires all of its airport body scanners to be able to store and transmit images "for testing, training, and evaluation purposes."

Well, now, the US Marshals Service has copped to storing "tens of thousands" of millimeter-wave body scans from Florida courthouse security stations.  It also transpires that the Marshals Service tested a millimeter-wave body scanner in the Washington DC Federal courthouse, then sent it back to the manufacturer with its collection of stored body scans intact.

Is there any part of the US Government that is not staffed with pathological liars?

That's what they say...

NASA says this photo shows an unusually active aurora over the (handwaved, still unexplained¹) hexagonal atmospheric structure surrounding the south pole of Saturn.

Me, I have a different theory.  I say the Markovian gate at Saturn's south pole is being activated.

What's your call?

[1]  No, really, I'm serious.  We have no explanation for it whatsoever.  It's a complete mystery.  I personally suspect there's some kind of rotational-resonance mechanism at work, some kind of atmospheric phenomenon that would normally produce a wavy line of cloud features around the pole but which, by some chance, has fallen into some kind of self-reinforcing resonance; but as to what that phenomenon might be...?  Your guess is as good as mine.