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?
Retaliatory secondary is for everyone!
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.
total b/s response from the tsa if in fact it is an official response. one should never (n.b. never) make an excuse for any type of action before any and/or all the facts are in. let's say for sake of argument, the congressman was in fact wrong...now the tsa looks foolish by making an excuse and issuing an implied apology for their actions which in fact were not wrong at all.
stoopit knee jerk reaction
The union representing Transportation Security officers said Friday.....
what union?

did i have a bald moment as miss tso's becoming unionized or are they private contractors who happen to belong to a union?