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TSA Blasted for Exposing Breasts of Texas Congressman's Teen Grandniece
The New American ^ | 28 November 2012 | Alex Newman

Posted on 11/28/2012 7:53:42 PM PST by VitacoreVision

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To: VitacoreVision

TSA - pedophiles and molesters now get paid and it is legal!


41 posted on 11/28/2012 11:14:14 PM PST by TheDon (In 2012, American voters chose European style big gov't.)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

And if there IS security screening, have it remotely make sense. Dogs for bombs. Profiling for mules. We won’t do it because we want so much not to be “unfair” to clueless Muslims.


42 posted on 11/28/2012 11:18:20 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
I was wondering why they would remove her bra in public. But it appears from the story that she was not wearing one.

Doesn’t excuse the TSA. Just answers the question.

A lot of sundresses have them(bras) built in so the person doesn't have to have additional bra straps showing. So it doesn't mean she wasn't properly attired.

43 posted on 11/28/2012 11:24:05 PM PST by Smittie
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To: VitacoreVision

Surely this TSA child sexual abuser is headed to prison! I would say for at least 30 years. Well if he/she were any place other than TSA they would!

They have mothballed hundreds of those scanners, the company that made them lied about how safe they are.


44 posted on 11/29/2012 12:15:19 AM PST by buffyt (Glowbull Warming the Greatest Hoax ever perpetrated on Mankind! since Y2K & Glowbull Cooling!)
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To: VitacoreVision

Rape the citizens, but don’t dare offend the moose!


45 posted on 11/29/2012 12:20:41 AM PST by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: ThunderSleeps

I got a heavy petting by a TSA woman who was very butch. Makes me nauseated when I remember it and there was no offer of a private screening. but then again i don’t think i would want to be alone with Her! LOL Gross old hag.


46 posted on 11/29/2012 12:24:53 AM PST by buffyt (Glowbull Warming the Greatest Hoax ever perpetrated on Mankind! since Y2K & Glowbull Cooling!)
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To: VitacoreVision
What does government do right? Not much as socialism doesn't work.

This tyrannical government keeps growing as we become slaves . and stupid democrats voted in this communist tyrant Obama to make us slaves. I hate democrats

47 posted on 11/29/2012 12:38:08 AM PST by Democrat_media (limit government to 5000 words of laws. how to limit gov Quantify limited government ...)
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To: SaraJohnson

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/09/tsa-equipment-warehouses-dallas_n_1502993.html

TSA Equipment Worth $184 Million Warehoused, House Panel Says

WASHINGTON — Thousands of pieces of security equipment that cost taxpayers an estimated $184 million and were supposed to be installed at airport checkpoints to screen passengers are collecting dust in government warehouses, a joint congressional panel reported Wednesday.

“Airport Insecurity: TSA’s Failure to Cost-Effectively Procure, Deploy and Warehouse its Screening Technologies” details how 85 percent of about 5,700 security units is warehoused at a Transportation Security Administration facility in Dallas. Annual storage costs at the Transportation Logistics Center, the report noted, top $3.5 million annually.

The investigative report was produced by the Republican staff of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, chaired By Rep. Darrell Issa of California, and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, headed by Rep. John Mica of Florida.

“TSA continues to demonstrate its penchant for bungling aviation security and wasting taxpayers’ money,” Mica said at a hearing on the report Wednesday. “The CIA uncovered terrorists’ latest modified underwear bomb plot, but TSA has repeatedly failed to effectively procure and deploy screening equipment that actually detects threats, and incredible amounts of its state-of-the-art technology is gathering dust in Texas warehouses. Significant reform is necessary to transform this bloated and inefficient bureaucracy into the effective security agency it needs to be.”

“Money spent on equipment sitting in a warehouse in excess is money not spent on the front lines,” said Issa. “This is not a security operation, but rather a recipe for waste and abuse.”

According to the committee’s report, as of Feb. 15, 2012:

•About 85 percent of the approximately 5,700 pieces of security equipment was stored for longer than six months; 35 percent had been stored for more than one year. One piece of equipment had been in storage more than six years.
•There were 472 carry-on baggage screening machines in the warehouse, 34 percent of which had been stored for longer than a year.
•The committee estimated the delayed deployment of TSA equipment “has resulted in a massive depreciated loss of equipment utility at an estimated cost to taxpayers of nearly $23 million.”
•TSA had 1,462 explosive-trace detectors worth nearly $44 million in storage, far more than it could use in the 463 airports where TSA provides screening operations. When asked why the agency bought so many, agency officials said they needed that many in order to get a discount.
The 22-page committee report said the TSA “intentionally delayed Congressional oversight of the Transportation Logistics Center (TLC) and provided inaccurate, incomplete, and potentially misleading information to Congress in order to conceal the agency’s continued mismanagement of warehouse operations.” It said the TLC tried to hide roughly 1,300 pieces of screening equipment from congressional investigators and provided staffers with a list of disposed items “that falsely identified disposal dates and directly contradicted the inventory of equipment” in a report to committee staff.

The committee made a series of recommendations to TSA aimed at ensuring equipment is actually needed before it is purchased.

The TSA defended buying equipment in bulk, saying it saved taxpayers money and that machines have been kept in warehouses at times because airports weren’t ready to accept them. The agency said as of Wednesday there are only two AIT machines in storage.

“TSA is responsible for deploying and operating state-of-the-art security technology at over 450 airports across the nation. To fulfill its security responsibilities, TSA rapidly deploys technology to respond to changing threat information, and stand-up operations in locations affected by natural disasters and other crises,” said TSA spokesman Matthew Chandler.

“These factors and others require the agency to have a steady inventory of technology available to prevent supply disruptions from compromising aviation security. The overwhelming majority of all screening equipment that is currently in storage (nearly 80 percent) has been warehoused for less than a year,” he said. “After technology is tested, TSA must fulfill a number of requirements prior to deploying machines, such as establishing sufficient and qualified staff to operate the new equipment and ensuring the assigned airport has the infrastructure in place to accept it.”


48 posted on 11/29/2012 12:46:13 AM PST by buffyt (Glowbull Warming the Greatest Hoax ever perpetrated on Mankind! since Y2K & Glowbull Cooling!)
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To: VitacoreVision

How dare you treat someone important like a commoner!


49 posted on 11/29/2012 1:16:49 AM PST by Tzimisce (What do you do when every every branch of the government is corrupt and aligned against you?)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

‘TSA - Touch Sexual Area’

LOL!
Can’t believe I didn’t think of that!
Because I can ‘see’ things long before anyone within my family, and circle of friends.

TSA - it’s so obvious - !


50 posted on 11/29/2012 3:46:15 AM PST by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

‘I would rather see entire 747’s blown to smithereens________’

A few months ago I expressed something quite similar as you wrote about planes. But I should have really considered my audience. . .
And it didn’t come out of my mouth exactly how I heard it in my head - - -


51 posted on 11/29/2012 3:57:08 AM PST by USARightSide (S U P P O R T I N G OUR T R O O P S)
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To: lightman

TSA=Touching Sensitive Areas.


52 posted on 11/29/2012 4:07:30 AM PST by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: biff

What, cut into the entertainment time to fight back?!?


53 posted on 11/29/2012 4:13:46 AM PST by wrencher
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To: Grams A; VitacoreVision

To: biff

I used to travel every week on Southwest which is my preferred airline but haven’t flown anywhere for the last two years. Received a “we miss you” email from Southwest and told them I’d return when TSA was gone. Sent copy to everyone on their board and airport managers everywhere in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arizona which are serviced by Southwest. Our family drives everywhere on business and for pleasure or we don’t go. Makes for some very long trips but I refuse to be a participant in their gropeathon and thuggery.


I agree with your sentiments.

However actions like this and many others that never get publicized do get the traveling public to change their preferred methods of travel.

The government on the other hand has shown that they prefer to have a more controlling hand over the “Legal and Lawful” populace and are doing everything they can imagine to make it incrementally more and more difficult to travel for business or pleasure.

And as another poster wrote with tongue in cheek, imagine the days to come when we all have to submit to cavity searches because some Ya-hoo created a “cavity bomb” and took out a “Plane/bus/mall”.


54 posted on 11/29/2012 4:42:18 AM PST by The Working Man
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To: VitacoreVision

Maybe they should be called T & A instead of TSA


55 posted on 11/29/2012 5:01:58 AM PST by NRA1995 (CNN should be PNN (Propaganda, Never News))
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To: soupbone1

“Maybe when the TSA has checkpoints on the major interstates then we’ll see some resistance. On the other hand I believe the incremental removal of freedoms will go on unabated.”

Which is why conservatives need to wake up from their stupor and elect constitutional sheriffs in their counties. A properly constructed sheriff’s department has the authority and armed muscle to take on the criminal fascist syndicate occupying Washington. When armed federal thugs tried to push their way into adjoining counties during Katrina, armed sheriffs turned them away.

Sheriff Arpaio is legally taking on the obuma thug operation.

Federal courts have ruled that sheriffs are sovereign entities and can ignore orders from federal authorities, including presidents.

So the elected sheriff is one element that can be used to reign in the Nazi thugs at TSA, but I’m sure some so-called conservative will be along shortly, insisting that it’s too much trouble electing a sheriff and even if it’s done, it’ll never work.


56 posted on 11/29/2012 5:49:24 AM PST by sergeantdave (The FBI has declared war on the Marine Corps)
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To: Smittie

I wouldn’t have said she wasn’t properly attired either. There’s no law that says you have to wear a bra.

My point was that pulling a dress of the shoulder of a girl while doing a search is a different form of action than removing a girl’s bra in public.

If the girl specifically asked NOT to be taken into a private room (the article specifically noted that many people don’t want to go into private because they are scared of the TSA), then you can’t fault the TSA for not taking her into a private room.

My problem therefore is that I oppose the TSA searches, and think we go way overboard on airline protection, but I don’t see this particular action, as described in the article, as being worse than many others I have read about.

It just happens to be one in which an unfortunate accident occured. That makes it useful for those who disapprove of the TSA, but I don’t see any indication that the TSA groper purposely did this, or intended such exposure.

If they did, they certainly deserve whatever punishment they can be given. And I’m not defending them, I have no idea what they were trying to do, I just noted that there was a misperception I had because of the story, and reading the whole story cleared up that misperception (that they had removed her underwear in public).


57 posted on 11/29/2012 6:08:04 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: PieterCasparzen

>For what the TSA costs, there could be an armed air marshal on every flight.

They could put three special forces members on every flight and still save billions every year. What they are doing now is criminal.


58 posted on 11/29/2012 6:14:09 AM PST by soycd
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To: Jyotishi
What a bunch of boobs!

Should change their name to T&A.
59 posted on 11/29/2012 6:33:10 AM PST by crosshairs (Hurricane Barry is 1000 times more destructive than Hurricane Sandy.)
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To: RitaOK
I too am amazed at who still flies.

It's kinda hard to drive to Australia.

60 posted on 11/29/2012 6:42:45 AM PST by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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