Posted on 06/26/2011 6:23:43 PM PDT by tobyhill
The Transportation Security Administration stood by its security officers Sunday after a Florida woman complained that her cancer-stricken, 95-year-old mother was patted down and forced to remove her adult diaper while going through security.
Reports of the incident took hold in social media, with scores of comments on the topic and reposts appearing hourly on Twitter Sunday afternoon.
The TSA released a statement Sunday defending its agents' actions at the Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport.
"While every person and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner," the federal agency said. "We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally and according to proper procedure."
Jean Weber told CNN's Fredricka Whitfield on Sunday that the security officers may have been procedurally correct, but she still does not believe they were justified, especially given her mother's frail condition.
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I think they would just find the whole experience discouraging.
This TSA situation is totally out of control. It’s become a pretext to institute an intrusive search procedures agenda on American citizens rather than to protect Americans from terrorists.
This isn't Pakistan.
The bureaucrat who sent out the "procedures were followed" should probably be severely counseled by her management.
I think I am going to upchuck.....
yeah right, counseled...not gonna happen
So Al-Qaeda is recruiting 95 year old grandmothers that wear adult diapers? Must be a new tactic.
Isn’t their something in the Constitution (say, 4th amendment maybe?) about illegal searches of one’s person and property?
Yet pulling 20 something year old men with arabic names out of line for a little increased scrutiny is considered outrageous.
Gestapo!!
The TSA loses the public relations war every time when when defend these kinds of actions.
who in their right mind...a 95 year old? take off an adult diaper?... This seems more retaliatory, or an authortarian head trip than security. Exactly how many recorded times has a threat been found in a 95 yr. olds adult diaper? What’s the basis?
How many 95-year-old mothers have hijacked a plane?
Search only Muslims and all will be fine.
The Left has no issue profiling Tea Party members and should start profiling for effective screening of flight threats.
And now these bums have a union!
“An agent told Weber “they felt something suspicious on (her mother’s) leg and they couldn’t determine what it was” — leading them to take her into a private, closed room.
Soon after, Weber said, a TSA agent came out and told her that her mother’s Depend undergarment was “wet and it was firm, and they couldn’t check it thoroughly.”
It’s actions like this coming from the TSA that has convinced me we are lost as a nation. Instead of looking at the real possible terrorist, Muslims, they target an elderly woman that has dedicated her life to helping others.
Arrest the agents and every single manager up the ladder! This behavior is uncivilized, abusive and simply intolerable.
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