Originally Posted by Cholula

But that begs the simple question which everyone conveniently avoids.

The TSA has physically searched..and now is irradiating and/or strip-searching and groping...literally billions of Americans without catching one single terrorist.

I know that, respectfully, this is beyond your pay grade but I've got to ask at what point does this this asinine "security" escalation come to a halt?

Originally Posted by barbell

So, what is being done to prevent injury to female screeners (or male, I suppose given other comments on this topic RE: guarantees of same-sex frisks) when the resistance their hand meets actually is a weapon such as a knife? Is there a plan in place to handle the sliced hand of the screener?