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several years and aren't familiar with the procedures. i will say, you know, in the times i have traveled the tsa folks on the ground there at airports are doing a great job in trying to tell people as you're moving through the line, what you need to be doing, what you need to expect. there is only so much that these folks can do. the one thing i do want to say here is i think that this is kind of the height of hypocrisy. if this were a republican homeland security chief and democrats were criticizing these procedures republicans would be yelling that them krats were soft on terrorism. if the shoe were on the other foot we'd be hearing a different tune. >> the same people that are saying warrantless searches, strip searches are just fine are telling the airlines they are going to get sued if they dare profile somebody and remove people from an airline like the flying imams happened in
methodology is very controversial, and i know that the homeland security department and the tsa are going to be looking at that. but the body scanner, you know as i talk to friends who traveled this weekend, certainly i know all of us go in and out of airports very frequently, it's frankly pretty quick and easy. i don't really have a problem with it at all. sadly these are just the times we live in when we do have to be even more conscientious of who is able to come in and out of the united states. juliet: jason as you know a lot of people do have problems with this. we've seen terror attacks on trains recently. the path train, it's kind of like a subway that runs from who he broken, new jersey into new york city. you go there for instance you see some police patrolling but you don't have to go threw any sort of scanners or x-rays or anything like that, these are vulnerable targets, aren't they? >> well, where is this going to end? it keeps getting better and better all the time. what is next, body safe virginia tee searches? the terrorists will find a way
minneapolis, st. paul last year. this is window dressing. tsa people i'm sure are fine people. they not have a vested interest. if they let a terrorist get through, like the christmas underwear bomber get through, who got through even though he was on a watch list. what are you going to do, sue the government, fire a tsa employee? we should return the security to airline officials, private concerns when it comes to mass transit and hold them accountable. they have a much greater interest in making their product safe. juliet: we are getting information this comes from an interview that janet napolitano did with charlie rose, and we are getting some information from janet napolitano's people that basically says despite reports to the contrary janet napolitano did not say anything about body scanners, she no more hinted at body scanners than magno tomorrow mores or bomb sniffing dogs.
around this and the irony of it is the tsa is actually making things worse by forcing people to cue up at airport and now in front of mass transit stations, you are creating another target of a lot of people, a captive audience that could be struck, not to mention the $7 billion a yore that the tsa spends that could be devoted to intelligence. finally if you really want to get to the bottom of this problem you've got to allow the authorities to profile. it's ironic that alexandria says these are the times we live in i don't have a problem witness. you can say the same thin about profiling, these are the times we live in and most people should not have a problem with it. juliet: the tsa says there should be better information and education to the public. maybe if they were a little bit more clear about what is going to happen or what was going to happen with the body scanners that things would have gonna little more smoothly. alexandra what do you think about that. >> absolutely. i think we are coming up to such a busy travel season right now. people who don't travel frequently are perhaps going to an airport for the first time in