Comment on article by Fisher1949: TSA states they pat down 2% of passengers. At 2 million flyers per day, that is 40,000, ten-minute pat downs every day. This means 14.5 million pat downs per year. Their indifference toward passenger privacy and safety is demonstrated in fact that with the time spent frisking 40,000 innocent passengers every day, they did not bother to commit even one day to checking the scanner safety data.

The only interest of this bloated and corrupt agency is growing the size of its budget. There have been ten TSA employees arrested or convicted for crimes ranging from theft from passengers to drug trafficking and attempted rape in the last four months and likely many others that were covered up. No doubt unionizing these criminals will improve safety, their safety from prosecution.

TSA nor Congress care if passengers die as the result of scanner radiation exposure so long as a portion the scanner profits are funneled back into the campaigns of the elected officials, both Democrat and Republican, who fund their bloated organization.

Things to get worse until there is a concerted effort demanding reform of TSA.