IGCC's Eli Berman writes opinion piece for CNN
With Lindsay Heger, "Scanners help economy by warding off fear of flying."
02/10/2010
Eli Berman and Lindsay Heger,
CNN
San Diego, California (CNN) -- The Christmas Day attempted attack by would-be "underwear bomber" Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab provoked the U.S. government to plan to spend $1 billion for full body scanners and other bomb-detecting devices at airports.
That's a substantial cost, and it doesn't include the extra wait time passengers will spend in security lines, or the distasteful invasiveness of the scanners. Is the extra security worth it?
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Berman is the research director for International Security Studies at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
