TSA is out of control

Pat-down fury: The 5 biggest TSA horror stories - The Week
A man opts for the full-body scanner in the St. Paul, Minn. airport. The TSA has said that only a "small percentage" of passengers will end up receiving a pat-down.Photo: Corbis SEE ALL 28 PHOTOS The Transportation Security Administration's enhanced screening program is continuing to leave passengers upset, humiliated, or worse. Over the weekend, reports emerged of Children and disabled passengers subjected to invasive pat-downs for refusing to step through a Body Scanner — and with milli...

WH: Intel Spurred Pat-Down Policy
U.S. intelligence has picked up Terrorists discussing the use of prosthetic or medical devices to conceal explosives, sources tell ABC News. The revelation about the intelligence, which is not new but relevant to debate over new security measures at airports, comes as the White House today acknowledged that the implementation of the security procedures has not gone perfectly. More Video Americans by a 2-to-1 margin support the use of naked image full-body x-ray scanners in Airport Security...

TSA Pat-Down Leaves Bladder Cancer Patient Humiliated, Crying & Soaked in Urine
When I went to the airport today, I was put in the uncomfortable position of a so-called “naked” full-body scan. Today’s experience was very different from the last Flight I made, nearly two weeks ago; at that time I only had to go through a magnetometer. Today there was no option — it was either the full-body scan, a humiliating pat-down or no flight. All passengers flying out of Washington, DC were subjected to the new procedures. So, like confused cattle, our uneasy li...

TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine
A retired special education teacher on his way to a Wedding in Orlando, Fla., said he was left humiliated, crying and covered with his own urine after an enhanced pat-down by TSA officers recently at Detroit Metropolitan Airport. “I was absolutely humiliated, I couldn’t even speak,” said Thomas D. “Tom” Sawyer, 61, of Lansing, Mich. For 30 years, Marcia Miller has flown to Toledo, Ohio, to join four generations of her family for Thanksgiving. But this year, thanks ...

They don't change their gloves? AYFKM? Where does this end?
WND: Spreadin' the glove: TSA infecting U.S.? Latex coverings 'have been in crotches, armpits, touching people who may be ill' Those latex gloves Transportation Security Administration agents wear while giving airline passengers those infamous full-body pat-downs appare...

Obama weighs in on TSA methods: Says there’s no alternative - National Libertarian
The daily TSA horror stories continue to flood in unabated. A Bladder Cancer survivor is left soaked in urine and in tears after a humiliating pat-down bursts the urostomy bag he is required to wear. A Flight Attendant who survived Breast Cancer is ordered by the TSA to remove her prosthetic Breast. A woman with two artificial knees claims to have been sexually assaulted. And then of course there is the de rigueur Strip Search of a boy who appears to be about 9 or 10, this despite assurances by ...

Logan braces for 'opt out' day
Disturbing tales of security pat-downs run amok at airports nationwide are lighting up the Internet and raising tensions as Logan International Airport braces for possible backups tomorrow, when a national “opt out” Protest is slated for one of the busiest travel days of the year. A Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman said the agency is probing claims by a Bladder Cancer survivor who said an aggressive pat-down in Detroit left him soaked in his own urine and a woman&r...;

TSA Makes Woman Remove Her Prosthetic Breast [Video]
As unbelievable as that headline may sound, it actually has happened. Can we now conclude after this incident and the ones with the nun’s and three year old Children being groped that the Terrorists have won? After successfully overcoming Breast Cancer, a former Flight Attendant who opted out of the full Body Scanner, was forced to remove her prosthetic breast. Cathy Bossi of Charlotte, who has been a Flight Attendant for the past 32 years, told CBS Affiliate WBTV that in August she w...

TSA complaints: Warranted outrage? Or all bark, no bite?
Click to watch video In recent weeks there has been growing vocal anger regarding the Transportation Security Administration's procedures relating to pat downs and the use of full-body scanners. But amid all of the noise, what are the real complaints, and how much of the outrage is simply that - a growing chorus of bandwagon anger. There certainly has been no shortages of horror stories - a Shirtless boy receiving a pat down,  a flier had to show her prosthetic breast, a bladder ...

Bladder cancer survivor recounts humiliating TSA screening
The pressure on the TSA to change its screening procedures is likely to grow following the story of one Bladder Cancer survivor who left a screening covered in urine.  Thomas D. Sawyer, a 61 year-old man who survived a bout with Bladder cacner, had his urostomy bag seal broken during one screening causing urine to spill down on his clothes and body.  Sawyer was then told he could leave and was forced to board his plane before he could clean himself up. According to Sawyer the scanning ...

3 Women Say TSA Screeners Groped Vaginas During Pat-Down
AP We're now aware of three separate incidents in which TSA screeners have allegedly touched travelers vaginas during the new "enhanced" pat-downs. To recap: A blogger in Dayton, Ohio says a TSA employee at a Dallas airport touched her breasts, buttocks, vagina area and "both of my labia"; an elementary schoolteacher from Washington says, "I didn’t really expect her to touch my vagina through my pants"; and today an ABC News employee claims she was subject to a "demeaning" search at Newa...

Metro flier: Airport pat down too rough
Thomas Sawyer, 61, said he sent complaints to several Transportation Security Administration officials Saturday. As of 4 p.m. Saturday, a spokesman for the TSA said he was unaware of the situation and that officials for the agency had not yet received the complaints. "We will certainly look into this," said Dwayne Baird, a spokesman for TSA, adding that the agency does want people with medical issues to alert agents in advance. Sawyer said he and his w...

Who Got Groped by the TSA This Weekend?
Our national junk-touching nightmare is far from over! The freak-out over the Transportation Security Administration's nudie x-rays and "enhanced" patdowns continued over the weekend, thanks to even more heartwarming stories of Airport Security. So, who got groped this weekend? So, if you've spent any time on the Internet in the last couple weeks, you've probably encountered the outrage over the TSA's semi-new security techniques: The backscatter x-ray machines, which take no-clothes x-rays of...

Is the TSA thinking of relaxing policy on airport pat-downs?
In a statement on Sunday, Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole promised to make aiport screenings "as minimally invasive as possible" but indicated safety officials would not Repeal the fully-body scanners and probing pat-downs that have provoked the ire of passengers. Hours later though, Pistole released another statement to Politico  suggesting that the TSA might be willing to change its mind, unless that's Politico trying to generate more online traffic. "We are cons...

TSA Pat Down Went Too Far: Agency Chief
The beleaguered head of the Transportation Security Administration said today that at least one Airport passenger screening went too far when an officer reached inside a traveler's underwear, and the agency is open to rethinking its current protocols. More Video An ABC News employee said she was subject to a "demeaning" search at Newark Liberty International Airport Sunday morning. "The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around," she said. "It was b...

Metro flier: Airport pat down too rough
Thomas Sawyer, 61, said he sent complaints to several Transportation Security Administration officials Saturday. As of 4 p.m. Saturday, a spokesman for the TSA said he was unaware of the situation and that officials for the agency had not yet received the complaints. "We will certainly look into this," said Dwayne Baird, a spokesman for TSA, adding that the agency does want people with medical issues to alert agents in advance. Sawyer said he and his w...

Cancer survivor tells of humiliating pat-down at Metro Airport
Thomas Sawyer, 61, said he sent complaints to several Transportation Security Administration officials Saturday. As of 4 p.m. Saturday, a spokesman for the TSA said he was unaware of the situation and that officials for the agency had not yet received the complaints. “We will certainly look into this,” said Dwayne Baird, a spokesman for TSA, adding that the agency does want people with medical issues to alert agents in advance. Sawyer said he and his ...

Who Got Groped by the TSA This Weekend?
Our national junk-touching nightmare is far from over! The freak-out over the Transportation Security Administration's nudie x-rays and "enhanced" patdowns continued over the weekend, thanks to even more heartwarming stories of Airport Security. So, who got groped this weekend? So, if you've spent any time on the Internet in the last couple weeks, you've probably encountered the outrage over the TSA's semi-new security techniques: The backscatter x-ray machines, which take no-clothes x-rays of...

Sexual Abuse of Security Systems at Airports
    As any world traveler will readily admit, security systems at today's airports vary enormously but within certain patterns of their searching people for weapons, high explosives and evidence of a Terrorist intent.      Some of these security provisions are not only absurd but clearly violate American Constitutional Law, such as the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Due Process, Probable Cause and the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. ...

Right Klik: TSA NSFW: Embarrassing, Demeaning and Inappropriate
Remember the unfortunate 5-year-old boy who was publicly strip searched at the airport this weekend? New details are beginning to emerge: The filmer, Luke Tait, wrote that "the boy was shy so the TSA couldn’t complete" the search. The child was physically resisting agents, Tait said. "Twice before the video starts, his dad had to hold him and pulled his arms up in a V-shape to allow the TSA agent to continue," he told The Salt Lake Tribune. The father pulled the boy’s shirt off "in f...

Right Klik: TSA NSFW: Embarrassing, Demeaning and Inappropriate
Remember the unfortunate 5-year-old boy who was publicly strip searched at the airport this weekend? New details are beginning to emerge: The filmer, Luke Tait, wrote that "the boy was shy so the TSA couldn’t complete" the search. The child was physically resisting agents, Tait said. "Twice before the video starts, his dad had to hold him and pulled his arms up in a V-shape to allow the TSA agent to continue," he told The Salt Lake Tribune. The father pulled the boy’s shirt off "in f...

Metro Airport incident that drew national attention ends amicably
Houghton Lake — Transportation Security Administration chief John Pistole personally apologized Monday to a Bladder Cancer survivor from Michigan who said a security agent at Detroit Metropolitan Airport patted him down so roughly that it caused his urine bag to leak onto his clothing. "First, he apologized on behalf of TSA, and I, of course, very graciously accepted his Apology," Tom Sawyer, a 61-year-old retired special education teacher, said by telephone Monday. "Just me, a little Ame...

ABC producer says TSA agent felt inside her underwear
Stumble This! As the busiest travel days of the year approach, more and more passengers are accusing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of going too far with their screenings. Earlier this month, the TSA began new security procedures in many airports including scans that produce images of the naked body and pat-downs. One employee of ABC News who opted for the pat-down instead of the full body scan claimed that a TSA agent actually felt inside of her underwear. "The woman who chec...

ABC producer says TSA agent felt inside her underwear
© Raw Story Pat-down 'worse than the gynecologist,' producer says As the busiest travel days of the year approach, more and more passengers are accusing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) of going too far with their screenings. Earlier this month, the TSA began new security procedures in many airports including scans that produce images of the naked body and pat-downs. One employee of ABC News who opted for the pat-down instead of the full body scan claimed that a TSA agen...

Massachusetts police probe whether body fell from plane
Boston | Tue Nov 23, 2010 12:53pm EST Boston (Reuters) - Massachusetts authorities are investigating the possibility a 16-year-old North Carolina boy whose mangled body was found outside Boston last week fell from an airplane, an airport official confirmed on Tuesday. Police have been unable to explain why Delvonte Tisdale, a High School Student who ran away from his home in Charlotte, North Carolina, would have been in Milton, Massachusetts, some 850 miles away, where he had no known ties. "...