TSA Reports Agents Developing Cancer From Naked Body Scanners.

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This is really not "political", but I've found it expedient to put any post that might upset the easily upsettable into this section.
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that reveal TSA employees are reporting “cancer clusters” among their own employees who work near radiation body scanners.

The TSA refuses to issue dosimeters to it's employees which would evidently reveal the alarmingly high levels of radiation being absorbed by the employees made to work near these machines on a daily basis.

The TSA in radiating it's own employees and causing them to become cancerous is being called a bit of "tragic justice" by the people who have been protesting this official sanction of procedures that would be a felony in any other aspect of our lives in their molesting and detaining and humiliation of travelers.

Why is this happening? Because Janet Napolitano lied about these scanners being safe when she reported they'd been validated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The NIST replied that it doesn't test the safety of products, EVER!! So, Janet Napolitano's claims were complete B.S. and lies without a shred of truth.

Our government at work with business as usual. Lying to the citizenry to advance an agenda, and lying to their own employees with the result being cancer.

I haven't posted about about the TSA in a while, but this story is too good and too bad to resist.

http://www.truthistreason.net/tragic-justice-tsa-reports-agents-developing-cancer-from-naked-body-scanners

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This is really not "political", but I've found it expedient to put any post that might upset the easily upsettable into this section.
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has obtained documents through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that reveal TSA employees are reporting “cancer clusters” among their own employees who work near radiation body scanners.

The TSA refuses to issue dosimeters to it's employees which would evidently reveal the alarmingly high levels of radiation being absorbed by the employees made to work near these machines on a daily basis.

The TSA in radiating it's own employees and causing them to become cancerous is being called a bit of "tragic justice" by the people who have been protesting this official sanction of procedures that would be a felony in any other aspect of our lives in their molesting and detaining and humiliation of travelers.

Why is this happening? Because Janet Napolitano lied about these scanners being safe when she reported they'd been validated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The NIST replied that it doesn't test the safety of products, EVER!! So, Janet Napolitano's claims were complete B.S. and lies without a shred of truth.

Our government at work with business as usual. Lying to the citizenry to advance an agenda, and lying to their own employees with the result being cancer.

I haven't posted about about the TSA in a while, but this story is too good and too bad to resist.

http://www.truthistreason.net/tragic-justice-tsa-reports-agents-developing-cancer-from-naked-body-scanners

To be fair...the body scanners were put in place during the Bush administration and the previous head of Homeland Security actually owns a piece of one of those scanner companies....

http://www.wcvarones.com/2010/11/tsas-nude-scanners-former-homeland.html

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Stop flying. If all pleasure travel stopped for one week TSA and the government would be changing their tune so fast your head would swim. We, wife and I, have decided that if we have to fly to get there, we ain't going until the TSA changes their rules.

Money talks really loud. Use that vote to change the way the government works.

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How the government can give opinions that the low dose x-ray is not detrimental to one's health...then scrutinize and chastise the medical community for doses associated with diagnostic x-rays & CT scans...It is unconscienable! Me think they speak with fork-ED tongue!

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To be fair...the body scanners were put in place during the Bush administration and the previous head of Homeland Security actually owns a piece of one of those scanner companies....

http://www.wcvarones.com/2010/11/tsas-nude-scanners-former-homeland.html

I've pointed out the Michael Chertoff connection in the past to a collective yawn from most on this forum.

How the program initiated is immaterial to this thread and does not excuse the blatant lying of the current Transportation Secretary, Janet Napolitano.

It also doesn't help the people hurt under her direction.

The story should only get bigger. How are travelers going to feel about going through these "safe radiation" machines when the TSA employees begin to back away from these machines while forcing travelers through them?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009215/Can-TSAs-scans-cancer-Is-government-covering-disease-clusters.html

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In the X-Ray world, the word "scatter" throws up bizzillion red flags! I see that these scanners are called Back-scatter X-ray...here is a link to an article that addresses just some of the concerns that I was taught in X-Ray 101 ~
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126833083

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I've pointed out the Michael Chertoff connection in the past to a collective yawn from most on this forum.

How the program initiated is immaterial to this thread and does not excuse the blatant lying of the current Transportation Secretary, Janet Napolitano.

It also doesn't help the people hurt under her direction.

The story should only get bigger. How are travelers going to feel about going through these "safe radiation" machines when the TSA employees begin to back away from these machines while forcing travelers through them?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2009215/Can-TSAs-scans-cancer-Is-government-covering-disease-clusters.html


Richie...if you are upset about potential cancer risks in the USA why in the world are you using a link from the UK? Seems odd. So you will probably say "its because the lame stream media isn't covering this issue". To which I will retort "That's because your sources sensationalize and hype these types of stories" So to avoid this I did some research....

http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/30/did-airport-scanners-give-boston-tsa-agents-cancer/

The curious thing is at first they are talking about the BODY scanners but those haven't been deployed for 9 years. But then they reference the BAGGAGE XRAY machines which have been in use longer. We only just marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11 so to take a sampling back 9 years seems odd. My airport didn't get the baggage scanners for 4 or 5 years after 9/11.

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Richie...if you are upset about potential cancer risks in the USA why in the world are you using a link from the UK? Seems odd. So you will probably say "its because the lame stream media isn't covering this issue". To which I will retort "That's because your sources sensationalize and hype these types of stories" So to avoid this I did some research....

http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/30/did-airport-scanners-give-boston-tsa-agents-cancer/

The curious thing is at first they are talking about the BODY scanners but those haven't been deployed for 9 years. But then they reference the BAGGAGE XRAY machines which have been in use longer. We only just marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11 so to take a sampling back 9 years seems odd. My airport didn't get the baggage scanners for 4 or 5 years after 9/11.

this from your link...
~He adds that while it isn't impossible for the cancer cases in the Boston airport workers to be linked to radiation exposure on the job, the "latency period between radiation exposure and a radiation-induced cancer" is generally years, not months.

"That being said, I see no reason at all why the TSA staff working the airport X-ray machines are not provided with film badges to monitor the radiation dose," says Brenner. "If they were working with X-ray machines in a hospital setting, they would certainly be wearing film badges."~

These statements are in line with what is taught in any Radiologic (X-Ray) Technologist school, under the heading of Radiation Safety! How TSA can be allowed to turn a blind eye to certain regulations and the safety of their employees and all travelers that pass thru AND NEAR these machines is amazing to me! X-Ray rooms are surrounded by lead walls to protect those outside the room! Those working in the rooms are provided with lead aprons and dosimeter/film badge exposure monitoring devices. Patients are not given unnecessary exams in an attempt to keep their exposure to a minimum, with strict risk/benefit policies in place.

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this from your link...
~He adds that while it isn't impossible for the cancer cases in the Boston airport workers to be linked to radiation exposure on the job, the "latency period between radiation exposure and a radiation-induced cancer" is generally years, not months.

"That being said, I see no reason at all why the TSA staff working the airport X-ray machines are not provided with film badges to monitor the radiation dose," says Brenner. "If they were working with X-ray machines in a hospital setting, they would certainly be wearing film badges."~

These statements are in line with what is taught in any Radiologic (X-Ray) Technologist school, under the heading of Radiation Safety! How TSA can be allowed to turn a blind eye to certain regulations and the safety of their employees and all travelers that pass thru AND NEAR these machines is amazing to me! X-Ray rooms are surrounded by lead walls to protect those outside the room! Those working in the rooms are provided with lead aprons and dosimeter/film badge exposure monitoring devices. Patients are not given unnecessary exams in an attempt to keep their exposure to a minimum, with strict risk/benefit policies in place.

I would agree that badges should have given to all TSA agents upon deployment of the scanners......if that didn't happen under the previous administration then it should now.

But you missed this:


The TSA provided this May 2010 document from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that states in reference to the "cancer cluster" claimed by the Boston union that "15-25 cases of cancer over nine years among approximately 1100 employees are not an excess of cancer." NIOSH states that "it is unlikely that the cancers reported are associated with exposures from the TSA baggage screening machines at [Boston Logan International Airport]."

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I would agree that badges should have given to all TSA agents upon deployment of the scanners......if that didn't happen under the previous administration then it should now.

But you missed this:


The TSA provided this May 2010 document from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) that states in reference to the "cancer cluster" claimed by the Boston union that "15-25 cases of cancer over nine years among approximately 1100 employees are not an excess of cancer." NIOSH states that "it is unlikely that the cancers reported are associated with exposures from the TSA baggage screening machines at [Boston Logan International Airport]."

Right! The effects of exposure are accumulative and/or usually don't show up until years later...as previously quotedthe "latency period between radiation exposure and a radiation-induced cancer" is generally years, not months.

The cancers caused by the exposures that have already occured will probably not show up for years! In the meantime, how are the exposure monitored AND how much more will they be exposed to that will further increase the chance of future disease?

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Wow, the medical knowledge that has been posted here could fill a partial sentence in a medical textbook.

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Richie...if you are upset about potential cancer risks in the USA why in the world are you using a link from the UK? Seems odd. So you will probably say "its because the lame stream media isn't covering this issue". To which I will retort "That's because your sources sensationalize and hype these types of stories" So to avoid this I did some research....

http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/30/did-airport-scanners-give-boston-tsa-agents-cancer/

The curious thing is at first they are talking about the BODY scanners but those haven't been deployed for 9 years. But then they reference the BAGGAGE XRAY machines which have been in use longer. We only just marked the 10th anniversary of 9/11 so to take a sampling back 9 years seems odd. My airport didn't get the baggage scanners for 4 or 5 years after 9/11.

Cologal, I referenced another website in the original post and you could just have easily pointed to that one. I printed the UK story as it was the only mainstream media source to write about this development.

The original post references the story that revealed the reports that the TSA was forced to acknowledge due to the Freedom of Informations Act.

This is the TSA's own acknowledgement of the reported cancer clusters among their own employees at these machines.

I love when people pick and choose the point of a thread to dispute and miss the elephant in the room.