TSA Pat Down Went Too Far, Agency Chief Says

ABC ^ | 11/22/2010 | SHARYN ALFONSI and LEE FERRAN

[Bigh4u2]

“But today he said the agency is “open” to changing security procedures.”

What? Wait!

Didn’t you just say that there are ‘protocols’ to be followed and the agent isn’t following them?

Why the need for a ‘change’ instead of disciplining the persons doing the groping?

[IronJack]

Yeah, now that somebody “important” got felt up, the TSA is “open to change.” They could have deep-probed us commoners all day long and nobody would have noticed.

[Revelation 911]

if it never should have happened - its then, Illegal !

[AAABEST]

If it was one of our mothers, wifes or daughters as opposed to a member of the media, there would be silence from this pathetic Goon-Meister.

[AAABEST]

“wifes”...duh.

[TSgt]

Someone is going to get hurt if this keeps up. And I don’t mean a traveler. The people have had enough...

[antiRepublicrat]

"There should never be a situation where that happens,"

He is of course referring to any passenger being able to obtain evidence of the sexual assault. Recording devices will be illegal, recording anything a felony, and a gag order will be slapped on all passengers in the name of national security.

[Nevadan]

So one of the media elites gets molested by the TSA, and the agency chief finally concedes that that particular TSA groping went too far. What about all the other citizens who just happen to be from the great “unwashed masses”?

[buggy02]

Not sure if this question has been brought up, but what about dogs, can’t a bomb sniffing dog do as good a job detecting explosives.
What would you prefer? A human feeling your crotch or a dog sniffing your crotch. I think if a person is sitting the dog could detect explosives in the upper/lower body with minimum distance of a foot or so?
Any dog experts know if this viable question is it doable?

[redgolum]

That will be the next step. Just like it is illegal to film a cop doing a traffic stop.

[Caipirabob]

I fail to see how routine "high tech" strip-searches with the only alternative being an invasive molestation of one's person is justifiable by any means given the viable (and scalable) alternatives currently and readily available.

This is tyranny and it will be the last straw for many Americans who have up until now deluded themselves as to the true intent of this administration.

[Seruzawa]

"It was basically worse than going to the gynecologist. It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate."

It's a felony.

[medscribe]

The agent should be arrested for sexual assault.

[MARTIAL MONK]

reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around

When I does that, I gets slapped.

Into next Tuesday.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

John “Pissy” Pisshole can go pound sand.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Drudge now has a picture (left column) up of a child being groped. He doesn’t have a link or a video for it.

[CAluvdubya]

They essentially have burger flippers groping us in the name of security and can't foresee these sorts of occurences?

Picture the thugs from the SEIU as TSA "agents" feelin' us up. I fly into and out of San Diego, home of the "junk touchers"....so my travel will definitely be limited to vehicles!

What a naive idiot I am. I never dreamed this would happen in our country.

[tiki]

Come on, don’t use common sense to solve a political problem.

The reason dogs won’t work is there are no huge political donors who have a monopoly on dogs.