TSA security looks at people who complain about TSA security

It doesn't matter if TSA has implemented a program to screen passengers. It is the idea that they can pull someone from the line and interrogate them because they complain against TSA. It is an abuse of power. It is bad enough that TSA screeners have a chip on their shoulder. Travelers don't need a power hungry goon going through an ego trip.

(CNN) Washington-- Don't like the way airport screeners are doing their job? You might not want to complain too much while standing in line.

Arrogant complaining about airport security is one indicator Transportation Security Administration officers consider when looking for possible criminals and terrorists, CNN has learned exclusively. And, when combined with other behavioral indicators, it could result in a traveler facing additional scrutiny.

CNN has obtained a list of roughly 70 "behavioral indicators" that TSA behavior detection officers use to identify potentially "high risk" passengers at the nation's airports.

Many of the indicators, as characterized in open government reports, are behaviors and appearances that may be indicative of stress, fear or deception. None of them, as the TSA has long said, refer to or suggest race, religion or ethnicity.

But one addresses passengers' attitudes towards security, and how they express those attitudes.

It reads: "Very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures."

TSA officials declined to comment on the list of indicators, but said that no single indicator, taken by itself, is ever used to identify travelers as potentially high-risk passengers. Travelers must exhibit several indicators before behavior detection officers steer them to more thorough screening.

Instrusive Pat Down on Children is NO Difference to Pedophilia

This child will never be the same again. Instrusive pat-downs on children is no difference to pedophilia. The scar from this experience will further damage the development of the child and the way she interacts socially. It doesn't matter pat-downs to children is procedural and necessary. There are other ways to screen a child without going through an invasive pat down. Touching a child is just plain wrong.

(ABCNEWS) The family of the 6-year-old girl who received a pat down at airport security in New Orleans said today there needs to be a different screening process for children.

"We struggle to teach our kids to protect themselves, to say 'no, it's not ok to touch me in this way in this area," the girl's mother, Selena Drexel, said. "Yet here we are saying it's ok for these people." If we don't find other ways we're making them more vulnerable, she said.

Drexel and her husband, Dr. Todd Drexel, of Bowling Green, Ky., appeared this morning in an exclusive interview with "Good Morning America."

A video of the couple's daughter going through the screening went viral on the Internet, getting thousands of views on sites like YouTube. It shows a TSA agent rubbing the young girl's inner thighs and running her fingers inside the top of the girl's blue jeans.

The Drexels said they stood powerless, watching as their daughter was patted down.

"I did ask for alternatives, I asked for her to be rescanned," Selena Drexel said. "They just refused and said they were going to do what they were going to do."

Selena Drexel said she could only speculate as to why the 6-year-old was selected for the pat down. She said that the TSA supervisor made it clear "non-verbally" that there would be trouble if she caused a fuss.

The girl's father said that while his daughter was polite and respectful during the screening, she broke down into tears afterwards.

TSA Employee Caught Stealing $160,000 from Checked Bags

TSA has lost its usefulness. Airports needs to adopt privatization of airport security..........

(New York Post) Two TSA agents were busted today at Kennedy Airport for stealing $160,000 in cash from bags, authorities said.

Davon Webb, 30, and Couman Perad, who turned 36 today, were arrested after admitting they had regularly stolen from checked bags, sources said.

In one instance, Perad, who joined the Transportation Security Administration in 2002, and Webb, who has been an agent since 2004, stole $39,000 on Jan. 30 from a bag at Terminal 8, sources said.

The passenger whose money was stolen was on his way to Argentina, sources said.

The $39,000 was later found in their homes after TSA notified Port Authority police, sources said.

Also today, the TSA confirmed that a string of security lapses took place at Newark Airport within the past month, the Newark Star-Ledger reported

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the two incidents were among a string of five security lapses at Newark within the last 30 days.

Another incident reported by the officials involved a dead dog that was brought to the airport by its owner and loaded onto a Continental Airlines jet without ever being screened.

Airline Passenger Found Not Guilty of All Charges From TSA Arrest

Finally, we have a case marking the first time anyone has ever challenged TSA's authority to question and detain a traveler. The final result ended giving airline passengers the upper hand over TSA. It is apparent that these TSA workers have "chip on their shoulders," and are egotistical. It is a power trip using intimidation to unsuspected travelers. The reality is not base on exaggeration. The reality is base on experience.

(Seattle Weekly) After an hour of deliberation Friday evening, a Bernalillo County, New Mexico jury found Phil Mocek not guilty of all four charges he faced after refusing to show his ID and using a video recorder at a TSA checkpoint in 2009. If you're keeping score at home, that's Mocek: 1, TSA: 0.

According to Edward Hasbrouck of the Identity Project, Mocek did not testify, and the defense rested on Friday without calling any witnesses or presenting any evidence. Hasbrouck attended the trial; he writes:

The jury found that even without rebuttal, the TSA and Albuquerque police had failed to satisfy their burden of proving any of the four charges: concealing his identity, refusing to obey a lawful order (it was never entirely clear whether this was supposed to have been an order to turn off his camera, an order to leave the airport despite having a valid ticket, or an order to show ID, none of which would have been lawful orders), trespassing, and disorderly conduct.

TSA Warning Terrorist Using Explosive Thermoses

TSA must have a lot of time on their hands to figure this one out. Explosive thermoses is the decision imposed by the TSA as a viable form of terrorism. Even though we can't carry liquids on the plane, why would anyone bring a thermoses? In fact, I fly routinely and never saw anyone carry one, unless they work at the airport or doing construction work at the airport. I wonder what will be next. Perhaps, explosive pens.

(The Hill) Holiday travelers went into Christmas weekend with a new warning by the Transportation Security Administration about the potential for explosives packed in Thermoses.

"The possible tactics terrorists might use include the concealment of explosives inside insulated beverage containers, so in the coming days, passengers flying within and to the U.S. may notice additional security measures related to insulated beverage containers," the TSA cautioned in a public notice.

Even though the beverages contained within are already prohibited, the TSA said that "additional security measures related to insulated beverage containers" would be in place at screening checkpoints, including X-ray, inspections and technology to detect explosive traces.

Obama defends U.S. airport security measures - ABC

The president don't realize that there is a better way. Instead of violating the 4th Amendment and our civil liberties, there is a humane way to inspect passengers before boarding a plane. The president must stop pandering to the American people because many politicians, including himself, are exempt from obtrusive pat-downs and body scanners.

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama defended controversial new security measures at U.S. airports in an interview released on Friday, saying the methods were necessary to prevent a potential terrorist attack.

Some Americans have objected in recent weeks to the use of revealing full-body scanners and extra-thorough patdowns at airport security checkpoints.

Obama says, "I understand people's frustrations with it but I also know that if there was an explosion in the air that killed a couple of hundred people ... and it turned out that we could have prevented it possibly ... that would be something that would be pretty upsetting to most of us -- including me."

TSA Unable to Distinguish Between Sanitary Napkin and a Bomb

The incompetence of TSA has reached its pinnacle. If TSA can't distinguish a female sanitary napkin and a bomb, they are a bunch of idiots.

(Daily Mail) A female passenger has claimed that she was assaulted by TSA agents when she was ordered to be patted down because her sanitary towel showed up on the body scanner.

The woman was wearing a flannel panty liner, that evidently aroused suspicion, causing her to endure what she described as a ‘horrible’ experience.

Humiliated by her experience, the unidentified Army vet wrote to women’s health company Gladrags to detail what happened.

She said the invasive patdown was additionally humiliating because it brought back memories of a previously suffered sexual assault.

She wrote: ‘The TSA agents were doing their job, they were as delicate as they could be, etc., etc.

‘But what ultimately happened is that I was subjected to a search so invasive that I was left crying and dealing with memories that I thought had been dealt with years ago of prior sexual assaults.

Her email added: ‘Because of my flannel panty-liner. These new scans are so horrible that if you are wearing something unusual (like a piece of cloth on your panties) then you will be subjected to a search where a woman repeatedly has to check your ‘groin’ while another woman watches on (two in my case – they were training in a new girl – awesome)’.

The woman said that she was speaking out because she didn’t want another woman to face the same humiliation.

‘I just don’t want another woman to have to go through the ‘patting down’ because she didn’t know that her glad-rag would be a matter of national security.’

Get Rid of TSA Director John Pistole Because there is a Solution

In light of the nightmare conducted by TSA employees, the Director John Pistole is adamant that security screening is here to stay. The inconvenience of removing our shoes, separating liquid into plastic bags, placing laptops and backpack in a separate tote is tolerable, but subjecting to harmful x'rays and physical grope-down is another story. There is a better way to travel, and it is not through pageantry. Most of the problem occurred outside this country by non-Americans and not from a passenger flying from Orlando to Los Angeles. Since pageantry is a must at the security checkpoint, it gives the passengers a false sense of security. In my personal travels, I see many TSA employees standing around looking official. Like every federal employee, it is the government expansion for job security.

The list below came via email. It gives a brilliant idea how security should be handled at the airports. These ideas would make TSA Director John Pistole's job obsolete. Finally, we no longer have to endure inefficient x'rays and intrusive pat down, ever!

The TSA Solution for Better Travel

1) Mass spectrometry devices: They're already in use at some secure federal facilities and are known for the blast of air they release in the detection process. Unlike the full-body scanners, these can detect bomb materials in body cavities and leave little room for human error.

2) Intelligence-based assessments: The method the Israeli airline El-Al employs to keep terrorists off its planes. This requires personnel trained assessing a traveler's threat level through a series of questions designed to evoke emotion.

3) Profiling: The method most recently endorsed by columnist Charles Krauthammer in a Washington Post op-ed. "...95 percent of these inspections, searches, shoe removals and pat-downs are ridiculously unnecessary," he wrote. "The only reason we continue to do this is that people are too cowed to even question the absurd taboo against profiling -- when the profile of the airline attacker is narrow, concrete, uniquely definable and universally known. So instead of seeking out terrorists, we seek out tubes of gel in stroller pouches."

TSA Reached in Her Pants To Feel an ABC News Employees Junk

(ABC New.com) 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 basically worse than going to the gynecologist. It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate."

That search was against protocols and "never" should have happened, TSA Administrator John Pistole told "Good Morning America" today.

"There should never be a situation where that happens," Pistole said. "The security officers are there to protect the traveling public. There are specific standard operating protocols which they are to follow."

In recent days, TSA purposely broke a urostomy bag of a passenger, made a flight attendant take off her prosthetic breast, and felt a shirtless boy's body. In all honesty, the director of TSA must resign his position. TSA Administrator John Pistole needs to prove to us that he doesn't have a pedophile, rapist, and bully mentality because such action we are enduring has gone too far. Pistole said there should never be a situation where that happens is a lie because it happened more than once. Just because it happened to an ABC News employee, Pistole finally admitted fault. MORON!

Woman Told To Remove Prosthetic Breast by TSA

Again, TSA are not qualified to inspect passengers with special medical conditions. Passengers should not allow themselves to remove any prosthetic devices for TSA. This is a huge violation of privacy rights and very humiliating for the passenger to endure.

3 Year-Old Girl Accosted By TSA

A post from a Youtube member StopvotingTandL: This was before the T&A-now the official name of the TSA- started their sexual molestation mandate. The poor little girl kept screaming, "Quit touching me!" And, this actually occurred in the United States. TSA screeners accosted a little 3 year-old coming through the airport. Did they really think this little girl was packing a bomb?

(There is another choice to prevent a molestation of a child by TSA. Leave the child home with the baby sitter or take another form of transportation. TSA has hired former child molesters and rapist to their payroll. I wouldn't ever let a TSA agent do this to my child)