I have a very difficult time understanding how a terrorist could use either a wound or a tattoo to somehow smuggle a weapon onto a plane.

Why should anyone have to expose their wounds to a TSO? Why should a TSO have to "visualize" the area? What is the logic there? What could possibly be smuggled under a BANDAGE? And what purpose would be served by anyone actually touching the area, whether it's the victim or the TSO? I'm baffled. What would they be looking for? Isn't it obvious that ANY touching of a wound would hurt, regardless of who's doing it?

I will never understand why two TSOs felt it necessary to physically manhandle an elderly woman's breast with a recent surgical wound on it. What could they possibly be looking for? Is there any reason, other than to exert power, cause subjugation, and inflict pain?