Mike Lee subjected to TSA pat-down days after calling to nix the agency: 'Maybe it's a coincidence'

The Blaze ^ | March 14, 2024 | Alex Nitzberg

[Twotone]

Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah noted in a post on X that days after calling for the abolition of the Transportation Security Administration, he was subjected to a pat-down.

"Update: days after calling to abolish TSA, I got 'randomly selected' for the needlessly slow, thorough TSA screening & patdown. Maybe it's a coincidence. Or not. Impossible to know. That's part of the problem with having a federal agency in charge of airport security," Lee wrote in a Thursday post on X.

In a Monday post, Lee, who has served in the Senate since early 2011, called for nixing the TSA and suggested that airlines could assume the responsibility of ensuring the security of their flights.

"It's time to abolish the TSA. Airlines can and will secure their own planes if a federal agency doesn't do it for them. They'll do it better than TSA, without undermining the Constitution and with less groping—showing more respect for passengers," he wrote.

The agency was created in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks. "The Aviation and Transportation Security Act, passed by the 107th Congress and signed on November 19, 2001, established TSA," according to tsa.gov.

In response to Lee's post on Thursday, someone tweeted, "I had the major pat down last time I flew and I felt violated, even though it was a woman. It was really bad."

[nuconvert]

Honestly, I fly a lot less than he does, am a sr. citizen, and I’ve been pat down twice in the past couple of years and seem to get singled out for the hand swab more than most.

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[volare737]

Get rid off this totally useless government monster agency. Do you know how many terrorists that they have found? ZERO

[Mark17]

You are correct sir.

[TexasFreeper2009]

harassing American citizens at the airports while simultaneously allowing millions of illegals to enter at will

America 2024

[HombreSecreto]

LOL

[volare737]

I agree. Get rid of them. But if you want them to do something actually productive, put all of them on the southern border to pat down every single illegal alien crossing our borders.

If we’re not going to get rid of them, they can at least check ids, check for drugs, guns, etc. At least they would be accomplishing something productive!

[discostu]

Put that in the “what did you think was going to happen?” pile too. Not saying he’s wrong, but things always have a price.

[mad_as_he$$]

I always used to get patted down. It may have something to do with my refusal to get into the rinky dink “scanner”. ;-) Swore off flying when I retired.

[conductor john]

Son married a Turk, so we used to travel there. EVERYTIME leaving, wifey gets taken to “ the room”, for a full pat down. No coincidence, she looks worried, and is a BLONDE.

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Hey, Mike, how about when, as a flight crew member in the early 2000’s, I was subjected to a sexual assault by a corpulent female TSA swine. She actually made contact with my female private parts, pressed and lingered. How about when I was missing my flight due to a backup in security, the TSA bridge troll in Ca decided to smugly use me for ‘training’ a newhire and pulled me aside in my full flight attendant uniform. He pulled a slowdown, publicly going over every single item in my suitcase and flight bag as well as my female hygiene items in my pocketbook.

Why was I treated like a criminal when **I** would be the one on the plane if there were an incident due to something in MY bag when they could sit on their fat asses and just watch if something happened.

My senior thesis was on the absolute failure of TSA screenings - sometimes 100%- in US airports. The employment requirements were dropped from college degree to ‘some experience on the screening machines’. During my research, I came across a forum where TSA employees were discussing voting union and many were talking about acquiring disability so they wouldn’t have to work. This was maybe 20 yrs ago so maybe things have changed.

Privatize it and drop this department.

[hopespringseternal]

Every agency has become a malignancy. They are all weaponized and basically returning us to what is essentially a feudal system of government.

It’s amazing that Congress is giving de facto authorization of this by doing nothing even as they are being victimized by it.

[volare737]

Great post! Going through TSA screening is nothing more than pure harassment.

The best description I have heard of it is, “It is the greatest show on earth”!

[joesbucks]

WHIO knows, but I’m going to exploit it.

[Secret Agent Man]

I think all politicians should be patted down by tsa every time they fly. Every single time.

[null and void]

There is only one type of security to use - PROFILE! Look ‘em in the eye, question ‘em, ask them questions and if they fit the profile grill ‘em.

Ah, the El Al method.

When was the last time a muslim terrorist took down an El Al flight?

[null and void]

I always wait until mid-patdown and ask

“You ain’t gay are yuh?”
“No” Invariably, sometimes indignant, sometimes mater of fact
“That’s too bad, at least one of us should enjoy this!”

Cracked one of them up so badly he had to leave while stifling guffaws.

The guy next to me on the put your shoes back on bench asked ‘What the heck did you say to him???’...

[Twotone]

THAT might get their attention.

[verum ago]

”Maybe it’s a coincidence”

Yeah, and ‘maybe it’s maybelline’

[no way…]

[hanamizu]

And how many act of terror on airplanes has the TSA stopped in it two decades of existence? In exchange for the expense of the agency, the hours people have lost waiting to be groped by total strangers in blue uniforms, flights missed, etc. Has the agency proved its worth?