email from a pilot for a major airline who claims all passengers are now forced through naked body scanners in El Paso, Texas.

“Passengers always have the option of opting out,” he said. [Yeah, until they don't]

Federal officials will soon be looking underneath the clothes of passengers flying out of Palm Beach International Airport.

Given that the two types of machines are both deemed effective by the T.S.A., why doesn’t the agency just abandon backscatters and use the millimeter wave machines, which don’t pose radiation issues?

In truth, a complete security pat-down seems no less intrusive, no less an invasion of privacy, than a full-body scan. But I’ve decided I’m ready to make my own, undoubtedly futile, stand.

It seems to me that the best place to work if you are a pedophile is at the TSA since there is no penalty for viewing child porn – an activity that otherwise would be criminal.

In the coming weeks Jacksonville International Airport passengers can expect increased security measures as two additional body-imaging scanners go online.