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Old Mar 3, 2017, 2:56 pm
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TSA wants to get more intimate when doing passenger pat downs.

Anyone here been subjected to the changed TSA "pat-down"?

According to this https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-more-invasive it's been tested recently and is designed to be more "intimate".

Sounds like the TSA really wants to feel up passengers more than it has already been doing for years.

Originally Posted by Bloomberg
While few have noticed, U.S. airport security workers long had the option of using five different types of physical pat-downs at the screening line. Now those options have been eliminated and replaced with a single universal approach. This time, you will notice.

The new physical touching—for those selected to have a pat-down—will be be what the federal agency officially describes as a more “comprehensive” physical screening, according to a Transportation Security Administration spokesman.

Denver International Airport, for example, notified employees and flight crews on Thursday that the “more rigorous” searches “will be more thorough and may involve an officer making more intimate contact than before.”
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