Encouraging Dispatch on Homeland Security

The latest paper version of the Atlantic has a short item in the "Agenda" section on a letter in the December 4 Journal of the American Medical Association. It seems that a patient who was treated with radioactive iodine for a thyroid disorder has twice been stopped in Manhattan subway stations and stripped searched. He is apparently tripping radiation detection devices.

I feel sorry for him. But this also suggests that we do have the technology to help us deal with the terrorist threat.