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.

TSA Still Groping Kids for Personal Pleasure

At times, don't you wish these kids had something disturbing that TSA would flip over; a bomb, drugs, gun, or a knife. Yes, you can call me an idiot, but that is the point I'm trying to make. American children who are citizens of the United States are smarter to bring a bomb, drugs, gun, or a knife on a plane.

Newark Airport controversial scanners are barely used on busiest travel day

NEWARK — The choice between a "virtual strip search" and a "grope" was strictly academic Wednesday for most holiday travelers flying out of Newark Liberty International Airport.

The majority of Newark’s full-body scanners were idle throughout much of the day, depriving most passengers of the chance to opt out of the controversial screening procedure even if they had wanted to.

All in all, Thanksgiving eve was a non-event at Newark Liberty, reflecting the relative calm reported at airports around the country.

This just shows the absurdity of using body scanners. It is useless. There hasn't been any issue during Thanksgiving regarding to terrorist activity. Since most of the body scanners were idle, travelers went from point A to point B without a plane blowing up. It seems the status quo before body scanners became the mainstream was just fine. It proves how the government went a tad overboard with airport security.

Woman says granddaughter mortified seeing pat down

Even kids understand that intrusive pat-downs are wrong. At 7 years old, children are very observant individuals. These kids understand the parents lesson about pedophiles. Soon they will associate that lesson to the people working in the government. Both get their satisfaction from molesting the individual. I can imagine the emotional scar this will leave to this 7 year old girl. Unfortunately, one day she will have to endure the same treatment like her grandmother.

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!

TSA doesnt know the origin or how a Fake bomb got on a German passenger jet

Another huge blunder for TSA because they still haven't determine the origin of the fake bomb and how it got onto the plane. TSA is more concern groping guy's junk and female breast. Also, TSA has a major chip on their shoulders by touching little boys and girls, making people remove their prosthetics, making old men strip down to their underwear and making a cripple boy remove his braces and force him to walk through the metal detector unsupervised.

(Daily Mail) A German government minister has today revealed that a fake bomb found on an Air Berlin flight in Namibia was manufactured in the U.S. to test airport security.

It was not yet clear who had planted 'test suitcase', said German interior minister Thomas de Maziere, but the one fact they had established was that the device had been manufactured by a U.S. company that specialises in alarm systems.


The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confirmed today that it was working with the German and Namibian authorities 'to determine the origin of the device and the reason it was being transported on the plane'.

The suitcase, which contained batteries connected to a detonator and a ticking clock, was intercepted by authorities at Windhoek airport on Wednesday night and sparked an international terror alert.

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.

TSA Pull Pants Off 71 Year Old Man with Knee Implant

Again, TSA believes this man with a prosthetic knee is a terrorist with a bomb. Also, in this video is a high school female made to strip pants off to inspect her artificial leg. Both individuals were stripped in public view. Of course, the high school female got the extra groping around the breast for extra measure.

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)

Hillary Clinton Wont Go Through Any Pat Down nor Should You

(Fox News)Hillary Clinton made this comments in an interview today on CBS' "Face the Nation" and NBC's "Meet the Press."

Hillary Clinton was asked if she would accept a pat down by TSA. She said,

"Not if I could avoid it. No! I mean, who would?"

It seems hypocritical that Obama and the Secretary of State are not obligate to go through a body scanner or pat down. It seems the enemy is the citizens of the United States. Why should we be inconvenience when the people who should get a pat down is Washington.

TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine

Thomas D. “Tom” Sawyer, 61, of Lansing, Mich.


(MSNBC.com) TSA are not qualified to inspect passengers who have certain medical conditions that need appropriate handling. A gentleman, who is a bladder cancer survivor, wears a urostomy bag, which collects his urine from a stoma, or opening in his stomach. He went through the security scanner at Detroit Metropolitan Airport and triggered the scanner. Requesting a physical pat down, the TSA agents disregard the passengers request of a considerate pat down. Instead, during the pat down, the TSA carelessly broke the seal and urine and other contents spilled from the urostomy bag. This left the passenger distraught and embarrassed. The TSA agents felt no remorse and told the passenger to pick up his things and leave.

TSA Agent Continues to Touch Young Boy After Shirt was Taken OFF

From Youtube member LUKEMTAIT: Lets get the facts straight first. Before the video started the boy went through a metal detector and didn't set it off but was selected for a pat down. The boy was shy so the TSA couldn't complete the full pat on the young boy. The father tried several times to just hold the boys arms out for the TSA agent but i guess it didn't end up being enough for the guy. I was about 30 ft away so i couldn't hear their conversation if there was any. The enraged father pulled his son shirt off and gave it to the TSA agent to search, thats when this video begins.

(As the title states, this child molester acting as a TSA agent got his rocks off when he continues to touch the boy after the shirt came off. I can see from the video that the boy doesn't have a bomb! Touching the boy is absolutely wrong!)

Instead Pat Downs and Body Scanners We Need to Proile Profile Profile

We need to end the pat-downs and body scanners. This country has been more reactive in dealing with terrorist than being more proactive. Syndicated columnist Ann Coulter summed it up the best. For every terrorist event, we put a band-aid and hope for the best. We took away box cutters after 9/11. We have to take our shoes off after the shoe bomber plot. Now, every single passenger must endure a body scanner or an invasive pat-down because TSA allowed the underwear bomber to get on board a plane. What next? Do we get a complete cavity check if TSA allow a terrorist on a plane with a bomb up the terrorist ass?

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