TSA wants to get more intimate when doing passenger pat downs.
Mar 28, 2017, 2:28 pm
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Mar 28, 2017, 2:45 pm
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It had to be as Trump's "team" could not have come up with this with only 6 weeks on the job. Neffenger instituted the odious process and then got out town so he wouldn't have to take the fall out - leave it to the new guys to deal with.
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Apparently Tom Costello will be addressing this incident on NBC Nightly News. I have no hopes that he will be asking any probing questions.
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Apparently Tom Costello will be addressing this incident on NBC Nightly News. I have no hopes that he will be asking any probing questions.
I feel doubtful that anyone inside the beltway will pay any attention to this. It would take a major organization to take up the cause and so far TSA seems to have their defenses well in place.
Part of the problem as I see is that Congress lets TSA set their own rules. There is no oversight as to necessity or reasonableness outside of TSA.
Mar 28, 2017, 3:05 pm
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).... sigh.I asked her if she'd seen the video of the 13-year-old boy's groping. She had not. She had heard a few stories about the TSA's new patdown procedure, but wasn't familiar with it. (We need to move Washington, DC into the middle of the US so they'd have to deal with their nonsensical decisions as much as we do.)
I strongly told her my opinion about the TSA. She said she'd pass it along to the "congressman". He hasn't taken any stand on this issue (I doubt he even knows or cares).
So another spit into the wind....
Mar 28, 2017, 3:19 pm
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Perverted retaliation still.
"If the TSA thinks these sexual/private part feeling-ups are needed to locate explosives, guns and other contraband weapons, explosives/ and incendiaries on young buys and girls wearing shorts even, the TSA needs to go back to the drawing board.
"Nowhere else in the world -- beside where the TSA claims to rule the roost -- would you see such a kind of scene so often at an airport screening checkpoint."
This kind of exceptionalism doesn't speak well of the state of the union and society writ large.
"If the TSA thinks these sexual/private part feeling-ups are needed to locate explosives, guns and other contraband weapons, explosives/ and incendiaries on young buys and girls wearing shorts even, the TSA needs to go back to the drawing board.
"Nowhere else in the world -- beside where the TSA claims to rule the roost -- would you see such a kind of scene so often at an airport screening checkpoint."
This kind of exceptionalism doesn't speak well of the state of the union and society writ large.
Still very wrong, I would have no problem convicting the guy of sexual assault under color of authority.
Mar 28, 2017, 3:26 pm
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Mar 28, 2017, 3:31 pm
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This story has made it way to CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tsa-pat-...ks-out-dallas/
Mar 28, 2017, 3:51 pm
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It had to be as Trump's "team" could not have come up with this with only 6 weeks on the job. Neffenger instituted the odious process and then got out town so he wouldn't have to take the fall out - leave it to the new guys to deal with.
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Apparently Tom Costello will be addressing this incident on NBC Nightly News. I have no hopes that he will be asking any probing questions.
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Apparently Tom Costello will be addressing this incident on NBC Nightly News. I have no hopes that he will be asking any probing questions.
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Mar 28, 2017, 4:11 pm
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Mar 28, 2017, 5:03 pm
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This story has made it way to CBS: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tsa-pat-...ks-out-dallas/
So the kid was punished by being sexually assaulted in order to teach him the valuable lesson of never leaving his laptop in its case again.
Mar 28, 2017, 5:34 pm
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Watching that video made my blood boil. And if that TSA "officer" wasn't the picture of a sex offender I don't who is.
Mar 28, 2017, 5:48 pm
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And the poor child may blame himself for the situation by asking what he did wrong so as to deserve this. The wrongdoer in this situation is not the child. It's the TSA doing this to passengers being passengers.
Mar 28, 2017, 6:17 pm
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The sad thing about these pat downs is that for "gentlemen of size" such as myself they aren't effective. When is the TSA gonna reach up into my fat flap?
Mar 28, 2017, 7:04 pm
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What exactly is the justification for an invasive pat down if there is a problem with the bag X-ray? Especially something as simple as an electronic device not taken out?
I just last week got my bag rescreened in FRA because I had forgotten that i had a Kindle with me (they had said tablet, so I took my iPad out). Of course, that did not trigger any rescreening or groping of my body.
Glad the mother shot that video.
I just last week got my bag rescreened in FRA because I had forgotten that i had a Kindle with me (they had said tablet, so I took my iPad out). Of course, that did not trigger any rescreening or groping of my body.
Glad the mother shot that video.
