A headline posted on Drudge yesterday and today claims that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano “admits storing naked body scans”:

But the article Drudge links to doesn't say that Napolitano or the Department of Homeland Security is “storing naked body scans.” It says:

For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they're viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.”

Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial images after all. The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.

So it's the feds-save-thousand.html">U.S. Marshals Service that allegedly stored images from a courthouse checkpoint, not DHS or its TSA, which is using these scanners in airports. The Marshals Service isn't part of the Department of Homeland Security, nor is it under the direction of Napolitano. So she “admitted” to no such thing. In fact, the same article notes:

TSA spokeswoman Sari Koshetz told CNET on Wednesday that the agency's scanners are delivered to airports with the image recording functions turned off. “We're not recording them,” she said. “I'm reiterating that to the public. We are not ever activating those capabilities at the airport.”

If Drudge's beef is with the Marshals Service, why is he targeting Napolitano? Given that Drudge used this same image in January, with the headline, “Big sis wants to see under your clothes,” it seems reasonable to ask, what exactly is Drudge trying to say about Napolitano? And why?

Taking its cue from Drudge, Fox & Friends repeatedly covered this story this morning with its usual sloppiness. The hosts falsely suggested that TSA is storing images and repeatedly flashed the DHS seal on-screen: