Lies, damned lies, and the US Government

[unixronin]

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?

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

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

Why limit your question to the US Government?

[lebo-superman.livejournal.com]

No.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

i'd like to know the consequences of the govt and other such lying to the people over this, and exactly what they're going to do with those images, esp if they have images of minors / children...

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing no consequences, until and unless we throw ALL of the rotten lying bums out.