John Pistole is the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration. Pistole came to TSA after 26 years at the Federal Bureau of Investigation where he rose to the position of deputy director.
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The radiation coming from the new TSA body scanners is "equivalent to about three minutes' worth of air travel by anybody, say, at 30,000 feet."
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