Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE A third victim, Linda Kallish, 66, of Boynton Beach, came forward this afternoon, recounting the same experience at JFK. This is at least the seventh reported TSA strip search of a passenger this year including the strip search of Shoshana Hebshi in Detroit on September 11th. In that incident TSA acknowledged that the search was recorded.  

Pulling down a person’s pants and underwear would meet most definitions of a strip search despite TSA’s attempt to qualify the term. How many others have gone unreported? This agency has been flagrantly assaulting people for a year now and has only been emboldened by their ability to get away with even the most egregious violations of basic standards of decency. The screeners and supervisors in these incidents must be prosecuted for what is clearly a criminal offense.

 

TSA has repeatedly denied these types of abuses occur and usually blame the victim. This is the sort of defense that one would expect from a rapist or other assailant, not a Federal agency.

 

How extreme must these TSA assaults become before Congress demands that this be stopped? Will they be permitted to water-board passengers next? Perhaps a few random beatings or even a executions, all in the name of an “unpredictable screening policy” will be acceptable to Congress.

 

There have been thousands of complaints of strip searches, groping, inappropriate comments and other abuses yet TSA contends that "proper procedure was followed" in each case. It’s peculiar how they are never wrong.

 

This is the same agency that has had 62 screeners arrested for serious crimes, including one for murder and 10 charged with child sex crimes. This agency is obviously out of control and needs to be replaced, it is clearly too flawed to be reformed.

This just reminds me that the US is full of mindless drones with no moral compass. I hope that I would have had the mind not to do that to an elderly person or anyone for that matter. I don't believe there's any good reason to strip search at the airport. My dad has applied for the TSA after being threatened with termination for no reason after 10 years. He could never do something like this and probably won't last long there.