"Yet they still have more rights than the passengers at the airport have. "
That's one of the reasons this whole thing is so sick. Maybe I'll wake up and this will be just a bad dream. Lets see, a guy in another coutry puts a not very good attempt at a bomb in his underwear, his father contacts the U.S. Govt. and tells them he is dangerous so they help him get on an airplane without the proper papers, passengers wind up subduing, the head of DHS thinks that's how it's supposed to happen and goes on TV saying the "system worked", the incompetent head of the TSA then decides all passengers should been seen naked and/or felt all over their bodies with skirts and some other clothing having to be removed, sometimes more than once before they can get on a plane. If it wasn't so disgusting, I'd have to laugh at how ridiculus this is.