“You’ve heard TSA say how most passengers support the use of our Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT),” a TSA blogger wrote earlier this month on the agency’s website. “Well, this time you don’t have to hear it from us. You can read a recent public poll that was conducted by CBS News where 4 in 5 polled support TSA’s use of AIT.”
That was last week. This week, only two out of three poll respondents are willing to go through a TSA backscatter, or full body X-ray machine, in which no amount of layering can obscure one’s nether regions from the concerned eyes of the Transportation Security Administration and its modestly trained minions.
