A reply from some TSA'ers:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13420398
The Transportation Security officer whom Utah Rep. Jason Chaffetz accused of treating him rudely and inappropriately at Salt Lake City International Airport earlier this week was a serviceman recently returned from Iraq who had no idea the person in front of him was a congressman, according to the union representing TSA workers.
1) Play the serviceman card . . . cheap!
2) Didn't he say the TSO who did the
patdown was professional?
3) Wasn't his beef with the supervisor?
"Congressman Chaffetz was treated as any other passenger," Sharon Pinnock of the American Federation of Government Employees said in a news release Friday.
Retaliatory secondary is for everyone!
Then, the Republican lawmaker says, he was told he was randomly selected for a pat-down search and subsequently had a confrontation with a TSA supervisor who wouldn't identify himself or give him his badge number.
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The unnamed officer, with whom Chaffetz reportedly had a tiff, randomly selected Chaffetz for additional screening, acting in accord with TSA procedures, Pinnock said. Her statement added that "any suggestion otherwise "is an insult to the entire TSA workforce."
So was it truly random, or was it SOP to give everyone in the strip-search line who refuses to be given a secondary? I love how you are insulting the workforce when you complain about one person.