So let me get this straight. I am a Federal Law Enforcement Agent who spent months at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center learning the exact laws that regulate my powers to reasonable search and seizure. My Agency has Body Scanners in select locations and very strict rules for using them (even though we have the broadest authority by law to search people). In fact we can only legally use them when a suspect consents to the machine.

Yet here we have an Agency that is not Federal Law Enforcement, does not have nearly the training or search authority that I have and they get to use it on any person they see and basically hassle people if they opt out (A pat down with no articuable reason why you are doing it is hassling. And NO, the person not wanting to be photographed essentially naked is not an articuable fact). I have seen these machines in use and while not photo quality, I would hardly call the images grainy as TSA is saying.

Furthermore, what about my young daughters? Are we going to have adults looking at their essentially nude images? Illegal last time I checked, and I should know, I have arrested child molesters. Or are my daughters going to be subjected to a pat down every time they fly until they are 18? This policy is ridiculous and TSA has it backwards. The body scans should be an option for people who consent to it in order to not have to wait in the metal detector line or for people who set off the metal detector but don't want to be patted down they can select a body scan.