What does it take to get the truth about these x-scanners before the American public? I have sent the following out to several news organizations. So far, no response.
The pictures that the TSA is releasing–those grainy, skeleton black and white pictures are only meant to mislead the public about the true capability of the x-scanners. As the inventor of the instant x-ray system more than 40 year ago (and yes, the US patents are in my name), I was producing far better quality images than what you are being given as examples of what these airport x-scanners produce. Here is a copy of an email I sent to MSNBC on Monday:
Your news segment had a clip of Hiliary Clinton earlier on the the x-scanners at airports in which she observed it came about as a result of the underwear bomber and she asked the question: "Who would have thought?" Actually, I did. Two years ago in my book, Master Spies Die Laughing. Not only did I predict the underwear bomb, I described both it and its components. I also described the next device that will be introduced in airport security–a hand-held sniffer wand.
As to the scanners themselves, the TSA is not coming clean on the resolution of the images. What they have released to the press are low quality, grainy B&W images. Actually, the technology allows for high-quality imaging. I was able to produce high quality images almost 40 years ago with the instant x-ray film development system I developed and patented and which you know and have experienced in your dentist office with instant teeth x-rays. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4029510.html
In the interest of full disclosure, I have written a novel in that was published almost two years that predicted the underwear bomb, the x-scanners and the new device that the TSA is planning to interduce later this year or early next–a wand sniffer, which is essentially a hand held wand that has both a sniffer chip and a video camera in the tip and is designed to be inserted under a persons clothing in order to scan sensitive parts of the body such as the crotch, under the breasts, and anal areas.
Since I have long since ceased to be Director of Research of the ISIS Laboratory at GBS AT&T, I am no longer an expert in current x-ray technology, digital enhancement, and virtal visual structuring, but I can verify that I produce images of such high quality that dentist all over America were using my technology to perform denistry, do root canals, and complete dental surgery. I do know that the quality of the x-ray images we see on NASA site represent deep space phenomena are stunning. Therefore, I suggest you contact current experts in this field to tell the press exactly what the true capabilities are. You can get a glimpse at my web site, www.CitizenPoet.com, but there are far more recent and more reliable sources.
Dan Speers
Citizen Poet 