Days after the Transportation Security Administration announced it would be removing 250 full-body X-ray scanners from airports around the country (and moving them to other government agencies), Congressman Mike McCaul (R-Tex.), chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, told Politico that he intends to hold a hearing to find just how much the reversal will cost the TSA.
Rapiscan, the company that makes the scanners, said it would be absorbing the $2.7 million charge to remove the scanners by June 2013, but told TPM it had terminated the $5 million contract with the TSA to upgrade them with new privacy software before the TSA paid Rapiscan any of that money. Originally, the TSA committed $40 million to install the scanners, an agency spokesperson told Politico.
