TSA Body Scanner Lobbyist Now Overseeing Spending on TSA
May 29, 2015 10:59:40 GMT -6
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Post by emotionallyincorrect on May 29, 2015 10:59:40 GMT -6
I shouldn't be surprised, but take a look at this farce! It's so sad and disgusting that it is laughable at how corrupt our government officials are in DC!
Rapiscan Systems lobbied aggressively to win a major contract with the Transportation Security Administration to provide X-ray body scanners at airports, only to lose the contract in 2013 after the company failed to deliver software to protect the privacy of passengers.
Rapiscan now has a friend on the inside.
Earlier this month, Rapiscan lobbyist Christopher Romig took a job with the House Appropriations Committee’s Homeland Security Subcommittee, which oversees the TSA budget.
During the previous push for a TSA contract, Rapiscan employed Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security, who now works as a pundit and a homeland security industry consultant through his firm the Chertoff Group. According to the Huffington Post, Rapiscan previously spent as much as $271,500 on lobbying per year to help secure business with the TSA.
Rapiscan now has a friend on the inside.
Earlier this month, Rapiscan lobbyist Christopher Romig took a job with the House Appropriations Committee’s Homeland Security Subcommittee, which oversees the TSA budget.
During the previous push for a TSA contract, Rapiscan employed Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security, who now works as a pundit and a homeland security industry consultant through his firm the Chertoff Group. According to the Huffington Post, Rapiscan previously spent as much as $271,500 on lobbying per year to help secure business with the TSA.
firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/27/tsa-body-scanner-lobbyist-takes-congressional-job-overseeing-spending-tsa-security/
So should we brace ourselves for an incident that will require a transfer of wealth from the taxpayers for our "Protection" in the near future? Keep an eye on this one, because if something does happen and the government wants to throw some serious cash at Rapiscan, then the odds are they KNEW something was going to happen and did nothing to stop it........
