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[Washington Examiner] President Barack B.O. Obama has asked security officials whether there's a less intrusive way to screen U.S. airline passengers than the pat-downs and body scans causing a holiday-season uproar.
For now, they've told him there isn't one, the president said Saturday in response to a question at the NATO summit in Lisbon.
"I understand people's frustrations," Obama said, while acknowledging that he's never had to undergo the stepped-up screening methods.
Passengers at some U.S. airports must pass through full-body scanners that produce a virtually naked image. If travelers refuse, they can be forced to undergo time-consuming fingertip examinations, including of clothed genital areas and breasts, by inspectors of the same sex as the passenger.
Obama said he's told the U.S. Transportation Security Administration: "You have to constantly refine and measure whether what we're doing is the only way to assure the American people's safety. And you also have to think through, are there ways of doing it that are less intrusive."
At this point, that agency and counterterrorism experts have told him that the current procedures are the only ones that they think can effectively guard against threats such as last year's attempted Christmas-day bombing. A Nigerian man is accused of trying to set off a bomb hidden in his underwear aboard a flight from Amsterdam with nearly 300 people aboard.
Obama said that in weekly meetings with his counterterrorism team, "I'm constantly asking them whether is what we're doing absolutely necessary, have we thought it through, are there other ways of accomplishing it that meet the same objectives."
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"I understand people's frustrations," Obama said, while acknowledging that he's never had to undergo the stepped-up screening methods.
The part in bold is the problem - if the president and members of Congress had to go through screening with rest of us, the whole problem would be gone in a heartbeat. Within seconds, there would be an executive order and a joint resolution from Congress to say in no uncertain terms "Don't touch my junk!"
Of course, to paraphrase Glenn Reynolds, security, like taxes, is for the little people.
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"I'm constantly asking them whether is what we're doing absolutely necessary, have we thought it through, are there other ways of accomplishing it that meet the same objectives."
And they tell him "Buzz off, who the **** do you think you are!"?
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The American people do not want it. Given a choice, I believe most people would forego much of the new enhanced security crap.
Given that the American people don't want it, if our representatives did their jobs, it would just go away.
Napolitano and the rest think they have an obligation to provide perfect security that makes perfect sense. They do not. They need to provide security that works well enough, and not security that makes people upset no matter how rational it is.
Most if not all of the terror attacks on airplanes have come from overseas since 9/11.
Dr. Brenner, who was consulted to write guidelines for the security scanners in 2002, claims he would not have signed the report had he known the devices would be so widely used. He said a type of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma, which occurs mainly on the head and neck and is usually curable, is the most likely risk from the airport scanners.
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let the airlines set and carry out the security. the market will quickly sift through and find the most acceptable cost/intrusive/effective security solution.
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He said a type of skin cancer called basal cell carcinoma, which occurs mainly on the head and neck and is usually curable, is the most likely risk from the airport scanners.
I must have missed the huge signs hanger of the scanners warning of this. No help for existing conditions either I don't suppose. Thanks for the heads up Uncle Sam.
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"I'm constantly asking them whether is what we're doing absolutely necessary, have we thought it through, are there other ways of accomplishing it that meet the same objectives."
Ask the Israelis next time before you tell them how you have the solution to their 'problems'. How many El Al planes have been bombed or hijacked in the last couple of decades? /rhet question
#12
Barney Frank is taking the lead on this issue, and says he'll be flying commercial exclusively from now on. And no, he won't be going through the scanner.
#13
I can't help but think that a one time system of clearance, like the background check for a secret clearance, would place 95% of people into a good to fly class. The TSA could then concentrate its efforts on the remaining 5%. I seem to recall this was considered for frequent flyers, but why not the larger population? As Dr. Strangelove said "We can use computers"
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"I'm constantly asking them..." He never rests! And the daughters are asking him "Did you plug that hole yet, daddy?" And so, cavity checks became the non-profiling law of the TSA.
Gordon Brown gave his first paid speech since leaving Downing Street yesterday, earning an estimated £60,000.
Mr Brown -- who has barely been seen in public since he stepped down as Prime Minister in May -- was a keynote speaker at a summit in New Delhi, the Indian capital.
He gave a 50-minute speech on the global economic crisis and how to prevent another one, which is estimated to have earned him around £1,200 per minute.
Other speakers included the Dalai Lama and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore. This religious thingy seems to be a good gig!
A source said that Mr Brown was chosen because David Miliband -- who lost the Labour leadership battle to his brother Ed -- turned down the invitation.
The source added: 'He is getting paid the usual price the leadership summit pays for a foreign speaker -- £60,000.'
*shrug* If that's how they want to waste their money and time, at least it's not being spent in more harmful ways. But how mortifying, for it to be known he was tapped only because someone actually worth listening to turned it down!
Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion climate campaigner Al Gore outlined the doom the world is awaiting because of climate change and expressed disappointment at world leaders failing to clinch a treaty to fight the new global terror. Terming the logjam in climate negotiations as a "startling paradox", the man, whose documentary, The Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar said the year 2010 had seen worst of climate change.
"There was severe drought in Russia and extreme flooding in Pakistan. What more evidence is required for action," he said at HT Leadership Summit.
His worst fear was that after failure of Copenhagen climate summit the talks where heading towards another "zombie" like the Doha process on World Trade Organisation negotiations. Gore's solution for the problem was taking the issue back to the grassroots and creating a political storm to compel the leaders to react to climate change.
The former president blamed his own country United States -- world second biggest carbon emitter -- for failing to legislate a carbon law to curb emissions, resulting in failure of Copenhagen.
"There are six anti-climate lobbyists for every member of the Senate," he said, adding that such interest groups backed by billions of dollars by polluting companies in US were making an organised attempt to change the public opinion on climate change.
"They believe that by deceiving people and creating false doubts climate science, they can delay the legislation," the Nobel Peace Prize winner for year 2007 with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said.
He like many leaders at the HT Summit had said that a solution to climate crises is not possible without involving business. For this, he recommended a price on carbon, which could be a carbon tax or a price for emissions higher than a particular level for each sector.
Al Gore had a lot of hope for India to take a lead in fighting climate change.
"India has a tremendous opportunity to lead the world in energy efficient solutions and in effecting a rapid shift to use of alternate energy like wind and solar," Gore said.
The former US president described warm India-United States relation as a constant and not partisan.
"Three consecutive governments of two different parties have continued strong relations with India...I am happy at the success of (Barack) Obama's India visit," he said.
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He like many leaders at the HT Summit had said that a solution to climate crises is not possible without involving business. For this, he recommended a price on carbon, which could be a carbon tax or a price for emissions higher than a particular level for each sector.
Translation - Took a bath on the divorce and the carbon-trading exchange. Will work for cash.
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"They believe that by deceiving people and creating false doubts climate science, they can delay the legislation," the Nobel Peace Prize winner for year 2007 with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said.
Sounds like he's pissed that they stole his playbook.
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Sex-Crazed Poodle. Needs to be added every time this lying fraud is mentioned
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Actually Al Bore is right partly. Climate change activists are the next form of Global terror. They want to effectively destroy human civilization which makes them terrorists in my book.
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He just lost his big stash of gigabucks. Cut him a bit of slack. He is upset, and things are turning to sh*t before his very eyes not going his way.
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Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion climate campaigner Al Gore outlined the doom the world is awaiting because of climate change and expressed disappointment at world leaders failing to clinch a treaty to fight the new global terror. Terming the logjam in climate negotiations as a "startling paradox", the man, whose documentary, The Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar said the year 2010 had seen worst of climate change.
