[mcantelon]

Also, there are campaign donations to be had from the vendors of full body scanners. Less so from civil liberty groups.

[tptacek]

It seems extraordinarily unlikely to me that campaign donations from millimeter wave vendors will exert anything resembling the force that game theory does; to wit, "voting yes to anything that might improve airport security, and avoiding at all costs voting no on something that might later be tied to some catastrophe".

[Tamerlin]

I think kickbacks is a more likely motivation here.