Originally Posted by
HSVTSO Dean
For all I know, some TSO did grab a lady's breast and give it a grip, squeeze, and row. It could happen, and the most I can or will say is that the TSO involved shouldn't be employed by the TSA after that point.
I can appreciate and respect your recognition that such problems
can exist but it needs to spread to the rest of TSA. If TSA claims that touching breasts and genitals is not authorized as part of the administrative search, then a TSO who does touch a breast (and I don't mean clumsily, by accident, I mean a clear molestation) not only needs to be fired, but needs to have their administrative search immunity retroactively revoked, and charged with sexual assault.
What has made TSA's actions so repugnant on this issue is a combination of "that can't happen, because it's against the rules" (so's theft, btw) and "we can do whatever we want."
I saw that SATTSO told someone in one thread that his iPad has to be removed from carry-on bags and be put through the x-ray separately. Clearly, this is an SAT thing. We in HSV go by the baseline rule from TSA
And where in TSA regulations does it say that individual airports can invent their own procedures? Oh, right, it's possible it doesn't, but SSI and all that.