Philip Rucker
Washington Post
Monday, January 4th, 2010
It has come to this.
Already shoeless, beltless and waterless, more beleaguered air
passengers will be holding their legs apart, raising their arms and
effectively baring it all as they pass through U.S. airport security
checkpoints.
Add the “full-body scan” to the list of indignities that
some travelers are confronting in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, era of
vigilance.
Federal authorities, working to close security gaps exposed by the
thwarted Christmas Day terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound airliner,
are multiplying the number of imaging machines at the nation’s
biggest airports. The devices scan passengers’ bodies and produce
X-ray-like images that can reveal objects concealed beneath clothes.
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