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...but reporting on any aspect of the exchange required after-the-fact approval from DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Sean Smith.

Wow! Ask anything you want, but we'll squash anything we don't handle well, in retrospect.

Perhaps DHS should be renamed. I kinda like the "Ministry of Truth" (Reference: "Nineteen Eighty Four")

There is already talk of putting the naked-scanners in other public venues. How would you like yourself or your children scanned/patted down to enter the following:

Political events (such as the Gabrielle Giffords speech)
A public school (already have metal detectors in many)
A sporting event (superbowl?)
A polling place
A mall
A church
Your place of business

Oldgringo wrote: The last time that I was on an airplane was the weekend immediately preceeding 9/11; therefore, I have no experience with current security measures or the TSA. I do; however, vividly recall the cowardly murder of civilians and mass destruction brought to this nation on 11 Septemer 2001 by unscreened passengers on commercial aircraft.

We all have choices: one of which is to fly or drive or stay home.

Just to be clear, the passengers on 9/11 WERE screened, and passed by the airport security in place at the time. They had box-cutter style knives, which were not prohibited at that time.

Security professionals agree that trying to stop terrorism at the airport gate is futile. As proven over and over, there simply is no way to "screen" masses of people quickly and catch every possible threat. The time/place to stop terrorism is before they make it anywhere near the airport. Even the TSA admits that the new body scanners would not necessarily have caught the underwear-bomber. It doesn't detect "pancake" explosives, explosives formed into a thin layer and applied to the body.

And saying that you have a choice to fly or drive or stay home, is like saying you have a choice to never leave your house. Technically true, but if you have a life, or a need to work to support that life (and any family you may have), those choices can become quite limiting.