A much younger person introduced me to Reddit. To an aging Boomer, it looks like a message board on steroids. Lo & behold, I found a forum (or whatever they call it) dedicated to the TSA. It's a mixture of employee gripes about nearly everything, questions from passengers (frequently having to do with flying with a joint or two) and the occasional actual policy issue. For those of us who remember the infamous TSA blog, there is no attempt to censor anyone or spin anything remotely official from the keyboard of a TSA public affairs gonk.

I've got no reason to believe that the posters who say they are TSA employees aren't who they say they are. Their perspectives are very institutional and party-line rhetorical because many of them weren't born before 9/11. When older posters tell them that the TSA used to confiscate nail clippers and mother's breast milk or that some of them had actually been arrested for stealing from passengers, or that they used to have body scanners that emitted x-rays known to cause cancer, they flat out don't believe you.

I think I posted the proper link here. Have a look around and post "educational" posts if you dare!