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Digging into this turned up this Huffington Post article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2010/11/23/fear_pays_chertoff_n_787711.html http://www.huffing
by markbao 14y ago
Digging into this turned up this Huffington Post article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2010/11/23/fear_pays_chertoff_n_787711.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2010/11/23/fear_pays...
Rapiscan (the scanner subsidiary of OSI) rebutted the claims: http://www.rapiscansystems.com/en/the-checkpoint/article/the_real_story_rapiscan_and_the_chertoff_group http://www.rapiscansystems.com/en/the-checkpoint/article/the...
- bcoates 14y agoThe Huffington post claims Chertoff's company was doing undisclosed public PR for Rapiscan's equipment in The Washington Post, etc. misrepresenting the capabilities of their equipment, which the WP partially confirmed: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/31/AR2009123102821.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12... Rapiscan denies that they hired him to as a government lobbyist, so they're very specifically denying something other than what they're being accused of.
- emidln 14y agoThe name of the company that makes the scanners is actually called Rapiscan? How did I miss this?
- mh- 14y agodunno, I try to point out that irony every time I'm in line there..