Confessions of an ex-TSA Agent turned whistleblower, about the questionable scanners, the pat-downs, and the bad behavior and discriminatory practices that go on in airports. Luckily I rarely fly, and have not had to since all this nonsense started after 9/11. Read the 4 page article here...
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| I hated it from the beginning. It was a job that had me patting down the crotches of children, the elderly and even infants as part of the post-9/11 airport security show. I confiscated jars of homemade apple butter on the pretense that they could pose threats to national security. I was even required to confiscate nail clippers from airline pilots—the implied logic being that pilots could use the nail clippers to hijack the very planes they were flying. Once, in 2008, I had to confiscate a bottle of alcohol from a group of Marines coming home from Afghanistan. It was celebration champagne intended for one of the men in the group—a young, decorated soldier. He was in a wheelchair, both legs lost to an I.E.D., and it fell to me to tell this kid who would never walk again that his homecoming champagne had to be taken away in the name of national security. Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...#ixzz2tGym0rTz |
