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Big Brother Is Watching as He's Never Watched Before

The Transportation security Administration (TSA) has installed millimeter-wave scanners at checkpoints in about a dozen airports nationwide. It's threatening to inflict these gizmos on every commercial concourse in the country.

Millimeter waves bombard passengers with beams that penetrate clothing to show the body beneath. Victims don't undress: the rays do it for them so screeners can find the weapons so many of us tape to our torsos. Never mind that no TSA employee anywhere has discovered a single terrorist, despite wandings, pat-downs, and the agency's foot fetish. Passengers may now have to perform a virtual strip tease, too.

Currently, the agency subjects only folks "selected" for ...

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