Leader: Scanners Are a Distraction, the Security Answer Lies Elsewhere
The Scotsman › January 05, 2010
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THE more we discover about the plans, such as they are, to install full-body scanners in airports across the UK, the more the initiative appears to demonstrate a worrying tendency towards "something must be done", knee-jerk government, rather than calm, rational decision- making by the Prime Minister.
Gordon Brown announced his intention to press ahead with the introduction of the body scanners in a television interview on Sunday, which was due to concentrate on Labour's recent difficult period in government, so there must be a suspicion at least that the Prime Minister was seeking to divert attention from his domestic political problems.See the full content of this document
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Leader: Scanners Are a Distraction, the Security Answer Lies Elsewhere
Even if he was not doing so, it is clear from the reaction by airport operator BAA that Mr Brown had, at best, jumped the gun and surprised the authorities by making his announcement which, as this newspaper pointed out yesterday, pre-empted a security review which ...
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