Former TSA Agent: Groping Scandal Is Business as Usual

Time ^ | 4/15/15 | Jason Edward Harrington

[Kartographer]

Over the course of my six years with the TSA, the leveraging of rules and surveillance tools to abuse passengers was a daily checkpoint occurrence. Has the TSA screener searching your luggage suddenly decided to share with you the finer points of official bag-search procedure just as your final boarding call is being announced? There’s a good chance that he or she just doesn’t like you. Or in some cases, as we’ve seen, it may be that the screener finds you attractive and wants to use the TSA rules as an excuse to get his or her hands on you.

[Kartographer]

To me the willingness of Americans to surrender their rights and dignity for the convenience of being herd on a plane like cattle packed into a livestock truck (While paying an extravagant price for the experience) is proof of the control the Government has far more control over the average American citizen. We give up these things readily even eagerly for a mere plane ride what will we be willing to give up if it is something real important like, food, water medical care????

[subterfuge]

We’ve allowed mooslim terrorists control our behavior. There is nothing, NOTHING, a liberal doesn’t love more than control.

[T-Bird45]

Excellent analysis and exactly why my last time on a plane was 2009.

[cherry]

the whole airplane experience leaves me wanting to never, ever go on one again...

between the surly staff, the prices, the narrow and narrower seats with NO leg room, and the long lines of grinning tsa "agents" treating you worse than a cow being lead thru the to the slaughter house...

they bordered all those people in Germany onto trains and they all went basically because they were told to do so...

[cherry]

think of all those new federal govt workers on the govt teat voting for their jobs with the ratholes....

and if you ever travel thru the Philly airport, you know what I mean...

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Flying out of a small CA airport several years ago, I was randomly pointed at for a secondary screening. The last flight was boarding and when I begged for them to hurry so I wouldn’t miss my flight, the TSA guy called a new hire TSA worker over ‘to show her how to do a thorough search’.

I missed my flight.