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Security theater and also a massive federal jobs program and corruption funnel (pouring money into the suppliers of all the “security technology”)
by chatmasta 8y ago
Security theater and also a massive federal jobs program and corruption funnel (pouring money into the suppliers of all the “security technology”)
- cwkoss 8y agoMichael Chertoff, former head of homeland security, accepted a quarter million dollars to "consult" for Rapiscan (body scanners), then helped them secure a $118M contract with the TSA. Corrupt as hell. https://theintercept.com/2015/05/27/tsa-body-scanner-lobbyist-takes-congressional-job-overseeing-spending-tsa-security/ https://theintercept.com/2015/05/27/tsa-body-scanner-lobbyis... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chertoff