Holder and Issa, Investigate former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff over those scanners

[KeepItReal]

A) When he ran Homeland Security, Chertoff had TSA purchase the first x-ray scanners that are of dubious value.

B) After leaving DHS, Chertoff's security company was paid to represent the company that makes the Rapiscan

C) Chertoff has made public appearances and interviews promoting the "need" for full body scanners knowing that he will personally profit from doing so.

Supporting articles:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123102821.html">Ex-Homeland Security chief head said to abuse public trust by touting body scanners

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/01/02/group_slams_chertoff_on_scanner_promotion">Group slams Chertoff on scanner promotion

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/related/e7qx8/the_former_secretary_of_homeland_security_michael/">List of Chertoff and Scanner links

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[happi1]

1. real talk

lolkz let issa do it

mAD things to talk about

[Norrin Radd]

2. kr

[bahrbearian]

3. Ya know if you gave me the actual links. I might link to them

[KeepItReal]

4. The hyperlinks work

Don't know what to tell ya

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. I like the way you laid out your post.

first part summing up the issue, 2nd part linking to sources.

Nice way to address the needs of the reader who just wants the overview and the reader
who wants further info.

:hi:

[JohnyCanuck]

6. As a former Secretary of Homeland Security, you would think

Chertoff would know about the published results of the University of Chicago's Project on Security & Terrorism, would be publicizing its conclusions and promoting its recommendations as the first and very significant step to take in reducing terrorist attacks on Americans. Oops, silly me, he would also be waving bye bye to the market for his client's backscatter X-ray machines and his no-doubt his own generous payoffs in commissions and fees for flogging these irradiating Rapiscan appliances to a gullible public.

How to end suicide bombings: New book argues the problem is not Islam, but lengthy military occupations

October 4, 2010

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Despite a popular belief that suicide terrorism is the result of religious fanaticism, such bombings are really a calculated response to occupations by outsiders, according to research in a new book, Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It. The book examines exhaustive data on suicide attacks since 1980 in the Middle East, Chechnya, Sri Lanka and around the world.

The data show that the best way to reduce suicide bombings in Afghanistan or Iraq is not to condemn Islamic extremism, but to end foreign occupations as quickly as possible, Pape claims.

Pape’s co–author is James Feldman, a former professor of decision analysis and economics at the Air Force Institute of Technology and the School of Advanced Airpower Studies. The book is published by the University of Chicago Press.

snip

The central problem is that leaders in the United States have constructed a narrative that identified the threat as coming from Islamic extremists who hate the United States. That explanation led to the invasions, occupations and eventual efforts to establish democratic regimes, something that requires a heavy military presence, the authors explained.

“But we now have strong evidence that the narrative — that suicide terrorism is prompted by Islamic fundamentalism — is not true,” Pape said. Despite some military success, suicide terrorism has continued, Pape said.

http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=2118