Back in early October — nearly three months before Umar Abdulmutallab tried to blow up a jetliner bound for Detroit — the Transportation Safety Administration’s blog cheerily announced it had received $355 million of Recovery Act money for “a lot of really nifty improvements to aviation security.” Included in that amount: $25 million to pay for 150 backscatter advanced imaging units which allow screeners to detect threats under people’s clothes.

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