{"id":282562,"date":"2010-02-05T09:42:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21627"},"modified":"2010-02-05T09:42:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:42:41","slug":"u-s-airport-security-plan-calls-for-500-body-scanners-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/282562","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Airport Security Plan Calls For 500 Body Scanners In 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/total_recall_skeleton.jpg\" alt=\"total_recall_skeleton\" width=\"382\" height=\"185\" align=\"right\" \/>&#8220;No wonder you&#8217;re having nightmares. You&#8217;re always watching the news.&#8221; &#8211; Lori in <em>Total Recall<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Thomas Frank at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/travel\/flights\/2010-02-02-body-scanner_N.htm\">USA Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Body scanners that look under airline passengers&#8217; clothing for hidden weapons could be in nearly half the nation&#8217;s airport checkpoints by late 2011, according to an Obama administration plan announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The $215 million proposal to acquire 500 scanners next year, combined with the 450 to be bought this year, marks the largest addition of airport-security equipment since immediately after the <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/topics\/topic\/Events+and+Awards\/September+11,+2001+attacks\">9\/11 attacks<\/a>. There are only 40 body scanners in a total of 19 airports now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a move in the right direction,&#8221; aviation-security consultant Douglas Laird said. &#8220;We need to scan all passengers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The push for more scanners accelerated after the failed Christmas Day attempt to bomb an airliner near Detroit. Suspect Umar&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No wonder you&#8217;re having nightmares. You&#8217;re always watching the news.&#8221; &#8211; Lori in Total Recall By Thomas Frank at USA Today: Body scanners that look under airline passengers&#8217; clothing for hidden weapons could be in nearly half the nation&#8217;s airport checkpoints by late 2011, according to an Obama administration plan announced Monday. The $215 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}