Originally Posted by gregory carlin

They started with opposite gender intimate searches! let us think back to the way things once were. The Europeans who complained of intimate vaginal prodding by male searchers at US airports were viewed as dangerous foreign radicals by the DOT/FAA.

The TSA was once a lonely circle of empty chairs and relied upon the BOP prison precedent. As the Bureau of Prisons largely resolve issues of sexual assault by simply denying it, things got off to a very bad start.

The DOT/FAA decided that instead of a bona fide system with sexual assault complaints being made to the local police (the proper authority), they would simply offer a form email service instead.

The local police were to be bullied into walking away and the TSA became the first 'quasi-police agency' to offer a reportage facility for sexual assault by internet form and only by internet form. Two things happened to make things a little better.

Cabin crew (female) began screaming about dozens and dozens of sex assaults by male searchers and Indian and Asian girls complained (with some justification) that their marrage prospects were being damaged by inappropriate opposite gender searches at US airports.

Mr. Jeremy Corbyn MP (Westminster, London) asked the US Ambassador to the Court of St. James for a training video of the searches and the US was eventually shamed into halting the abusive searches.

If it is bad now, remember how bad it was before a few brave souls risked no fly lists etc. to try and invoke a little sanity.