Checkpoints and Borders Policy Debate - Did journalist's Bell's Palsy lead to "chat down" and hand swabbing?

Linked on Drudge... Apologies in advance if already posted...

TSA Swabbing Fliers’ Hands For Explosives During ‘Chat Downs’ (http://www.infowars.com/tsa-swabbing-fliers-hands-for-explosives-during-chat-downs/)

Journalist details ordeal at hands of ‘behavioral detection officer’

A Michigan journalist suffering from a facial disability has described his treatment at the hands of a TSA behavioral detection officer as “frightening”, after he was detained and swabbed for explosives following a refusal to tell the agent what his business was on a domestic trip from Detroit to Grand Rapids.

I'd love to see the story published by a credible news source, but if this is true, it's just more proof that the TSA's BDO voodoo doesn't work (and may be discriminatory.

I'd love to see the story published by a credible news source, but if this is true, it's just more proof that the TSA's BDO voodoo doesn't work (and may be discriminatory.

The ACLU "Legislative Policy Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office," underwent a similar experience.

Perhaps amazing to FTers, she hadn't been aware of the BDO initiative. "I don’t work on airline security issues for the ACLU, so I hadn’t known about this program..."

Dear TSA, My Football Preferences and Vacation Plans are None of your Business: A First-Hand Experience With the TSA’s “Chat-Downs” (http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/dear-tsa-my-football-preferences-and-vacation-plans-are-none-your-business)

I'd love to see the story published by a credible news source, but if this is true, it's just more proof that the TSA's BDO voodoo doesn't work (and may be discriminatory.

If you don't like infowars, read the author's original article at mlive.com from the Muskegon Chronicle, which appears to be a local Michigan paper.

http://www.mlive.com/opinion/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/08/steve_gunn_37.html

Yeah, it's an opinion piece, it is the guy's 1st hand account.

Just because something is posted on a conservative or libertarian (or right wing) website doesn't make it untrue. Nor does being posted on a left-wing site like huffingtonpost. In fact, IMO if you don't read a little of both, you miss out on a lot of entire stories that each side chooses not to report.

If you don't like infowars, read the author's original article at mlive.com from the Muskegon Chronicle, which appears to be a local Michigan paper.

http://www.mlive.com/opinion/muskegon/index.ssf/2012/08/steve_gunn_37.html

Yeah, it's an opinion piece, it is the guy's 1st hand account.

Just because something is posted on a conservative or libertarian (or right wing) website doesn't make it untrue. Nor does being posted on a left-wing site like huffingtonpost. In fact, IMO if you don't read a little of both, you miss out on a lot of entire stories that each side chooses not to report.
I wasn't doubting the credibility of the story itself, but rather of the messenger. The fact that it was published in the Muskegon Chronicle, opinion piece or no, gives it more credibility in my eyes.

I don't want to get into a political/ideological debate here, but suffice to say I take news reported by the far right AND the far left "news" sites with a grain of salt.

...suffice to say I take news reported by the far right AND the far left "news" sites with a grain of salt.

Gosh, I take everything I read with that proverbial grain of salt, including what I find on those "objective" "news" sites. ;)

Concerns about such TSA practices as invasive searches, chat downs, etc. seem to be one of the few areas in which left and right find some common ground these days.

DTW-GRR? Eghads. DTW-CDG, DTW-LAX, DTW-AMS, DTW-NYC... yet DTW-GRR? Maybe being a Michigander is the trigger to that being so funny...