My last video demonstrated how easy it is to take a metal object through TSA nude body scanners undetected.
In this video, I interviewed an actual TSA screener to hear more about how these machines are an epic fail. “Jennifer,” who asked me not to use her real name or face, has been on the front lines of the TSA’s checkpoints for the last 4 years.
Please share this video with your family, friends, and most importantly, elected officials in federal government. Make sure they understand that your vote is contingent on them fixing the abuse that 200,000 passengers face from the TSA on a daily basis. If you are (or know) a TSA screener who has seen abuse in the TSA, please contact me (below)!
My legal battle against the TSA’s nude body scanner and pat-down molestation program continues in court, soon with a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. If you’d like to donate to this effort, send PayPal to: jon [at] fourtentech.com
I’d like to thank:
Travel Underground – http://www.travelunderground.org/
Freedom to Travel USA – http://fttusa.org/
Legislators who have stood up to the TSA – especially Dr. Ron Paul & Sen. Rand Paul
…and all those who have both publicly and privately stood up to the TSA.
Add me on Twitter: @tsaoutourpants (no “of”)
Transcript:
In the video I released last month, I showed the world that it’s trivial to beat the TSA’s nude body scanners; all it takes is simply strapping a metal object to your side. I referred to the program as a “giant fraud,” and I chose those words carefully: it was not an oversight, but rather the TSA knowingly imposed these virtual strip searches on us despite the fact that they don’t work.
Now how can I be so sure that the TSA knew that the scanners were broken? Well, in the first video I referred to other countries who take aviation security more seriously than we do had rejected the scanners years ago. Over the last year, we’ve also seen almost the entirety of Europe has backtracked on the body scanners. And there have been dozens of research studies that have shown vulnerabilities in the technology, of which the TSA must surely be aware.
But most importantly, I know because TSA employees have told me so. In the last year and a half since I filed my lawsuit against the scanners and the groping, I’ve received hundreds of e-mails and thousands of comments on my blog, and some from actual TSA employees who have seen the scanners fail first-hand. One of them was nice enough to sit down for an interview with me last week. “Jennifer” has been working with the Transportation Security Administration for the last 4 years as a screener, and had this to tell me:
[Video Interview Segment]
Jon: Were there specific times where this machine didn’t work, for either someone testing it, or a passenger went through and it was determined that they went through with…
Jennifer: Absolutely. Yes, absolutely.
Jon: Metal objects?
Jennifer: Metal, non-metal.
Jon: Big, small?
Jennifer: Both.
Jon: Things like wallets I think you mentioned to me?
Jennifer: Wallets.
Jon: So you’d send someone through the scanner and you’d see a bulge in their pocket, but the scanner would show nothing?
Jennifer: Mmhmm.
Jon: Things during training?
Jennifer: Absolutely.
Jon: What would you test it with when you were testing the machines?
Jennifer: There were different props: guns, knives, bags of powder that were supposed to resemble explosive material.
Jon: Sometimes these would just go through completely undetected?
Jennifer: Absolutely.Now if it wasn’t scary enough that the TSA deployed these machines knowing they could take simulated bombs through them, Jennifer tells me that they were forcing screeners to run these radiation machines who hadn’t, according to the TSA’s own policies, been properly trained:
[Video Interview Segment]
Jon: They tried to send you to the machines, and you said, ‘Hold on, I’m not certified.’
Jennifer: Right.
Jon: And then in December I guess you tried the same thing and they said, ‘Too bad?’
Jennifer: We were forced to work on these machines. So basically, there were so few of us trained to work on the machines, they basically forced us.
Jon: So they didn’t care if you were certified or not?
Jennifer: No, I actually went to my supervisor — or a supervisor — the first day. I and another officer had this concern, that, you know, ‘Look, we’ve never worked on this particular machine, we don’t know what to do’ and his answer was, ‘Sorry, we don’t have enough staffing, you’re going to have to work on it.’
Jon: Certified or not, just get on the machine and make the best of it?
Jennifer: Yep, ‘just have your co-workers help you.’After Jennifer was repeatedly ignored when she brought these serious issues up with management, she contacted her representatives in Congress for assistance… after which the TSA promptly began the process of firing her! A process, by the way, which took the TSA three months, during which Jennifer was forced to sit around on the taxpayer’s dime and do absolutely nothing. Fortunately, Jennifer turns in her uniform today.
[Video Interview Segment]
Jon: You wrote to Congress about the problems you saw in the TSA.
Jennifer: I did.
Jon: What happened?
Jennifer: I sent my letter on Jan. 1, and I came back from sick leave about a week later, and I was immediately removed from screening duties.
Jon: So you sent a letter to a Congressman — or to several — saying ‘Hey, there’s a problem with the TSA,’ and the TSA’s response was… retaliatory would you say?
Jennifer: Yes.
Jon: Was that the end of your screening duties… have you been back to screening since?
Jennifer: No.This is why the TSA sucks. Because good employees who point out when the public is being put at risk aren’t listened to, they aren’t promoted – they’re fired! …and what’s left are the pizza-box employees that strip-search grannies, steal from your bags, throw hot coffee on pilots, and shoot up my neighborhood.
And every time another TSA employee is arrested – we’re up to at least 60 in the last 12 months – the TSA spouts off on their blog about the professionalism of their employees, just as when they’re caught on video molesting children at airports, they defend their employees’ fondlings as “by the book” – that book being the “Screening Checkpoint Standard Operating Procedures” or “SOP.” The SOP is the TSA’s secret guide as to how TSA employees are supposed to do screening as airports. The only problem is, TSA employees never actually read that book!
[Video Interview Segment]
Jennifer: Supposedly there is an SOP manual at every checkpoint. I’ve never seen it.
Jon: So you wouldn’t know where to go to find this book?
Jennifer: No, no.
Jon: *laughs*
Jennifer: I know, you can’t make this stuff up, you really can’t.
Jon: Did you read the SOP at any point, during training, or…
Jennifer: You mean initially…
Jon: Did you ever read the SOP from cover-to-cover?
Jennifer: Oh no, no… I’ve never read… no.Absolutely stunning. I’d like to thank Jennifer for exposing this, and if you’re an attorney that would like to contact Jennifer, send me a message. I’d also like to encourage any of the few good TSA employees left who have seen abuse in the TSA to contact me – see the notes on this video for how to do so, anonymously if you’d prefer.
But there you have it. The TSA was aware of the fatal flaws in the nude body scanner program, yet knowingly defrauded the American taxpayer into buying these machines, as well as travellers from across the globe into posing naked “for their safety.” Well no more, guys — we’re done posing naked for the TSA. It’s time for the nude body scanner program to be immediately ended, for TSA Administrator John Pistole to be fired, and for the TSA to be dismantled as soon as possible. I encourage you to make this an election year issue and demand from your candidates a strong commitment to restoring our civil rights – and our sanity at airports. I also encourage anyone who’s asked to go through a body scanner to simply say, “I opt out,” and refuse to participate in this security theatre.
Until next time.
April 10, 2012 at 9:20 am
Thanks for posting the transcript as well.
April 10, 2012 at 9:58 am
Is that really supposed to be hiding her identity?
April 10, 2012 at 10:01 am
She knows the TSA will know who she is; she just doesn’t want to be a named Internet star at the moment.
April 10, 2012 at 10:34 am
Ah OK. Well done her for being so brave then.
April 10, 2012 at 11:13 am
I thought he was mocking TSA’s scanner efficiency.
April 11, 2012 at 12:37 pm
I was thinking the same thing.
April 10, 2012 at 10:29 am
Fab, Jon. Posted at TSA News:
Jon Corbett’s new video: TSA screener admits scanners are a boondoggle
by LISA SIMEONE on APRIL 10, 2012
http://tsanewsblog.com/2438/news/jon-corbetts-new-video-tsa-screener-admits-scanners-are-a-boondoggle/
April 10, 2012 at 11:41 am
Good for both of you for speaking out about this matter. When I talk to online friends around the world about what goes on in our airports, they are stunned. I hope none of them visits here until we have proper, legal and ethical airport security. I am still boycotting air travel, perhaps until the end of my life.
April 10, 2012 at 3:09 pm
bccmee, I, too, have stopped flying. And I love travel more than I can say. Luckily, I’ve done a lot of it in my life. But I took my last flight in September 2010, just before the gropes were instituted nationwide.
Most of my friends and colleagues are clueless. They’re just fine with the abuse — as long as it happens to someone else. The level of willful ignorance on this subject is mind-boggling.
April 10, 2012 at 12:06 pm
Great piece of work Jon! Now I wish I had been recording my conversation with Bill Forster last Thanksgiving.
I think Doug Casey had a great point in his recent article – anybody with any conscience at all at TSA eventually either feels pressure to leave or is forced out – the real danger is that they are replaced by people with no qualms about leveling abuse on people.
April 10, 2012 at 12:08 pm
This woman’s experience was also evidence that Congress has no real interest in overhauling TSA. So our complaints about TSA should be magnified as complaints towards Congress, and resolving not to reelect anybody who voted in these atrocities.
April 10, 2012 at 12:46 pm
big brother needs to pack up his machines
April 10, 2012 at 12:47 pm
I would think she has a great case for a whistling blowing lawsuit
April 11, 2012 at 4:44 pm
My sister is still fighting a whistleblower lawsuit against the Monroe County Florida School Board after 2 years they still have not given all disclosure to her lawyer, they keep stalling. Don’t count on that to help her. Any really good whistleblowerlawyers want to to a pro bono to get the stupid out of the school board google it and call her lawyer in Key West
April 10, 2012 at 1:49 pm
These things have got to go now! Tell the administration to withhold funding from TSA until they respect the Constitution and the traveling public:
http://wh.gov/RPx
1. Remove and destroy all imaging machines that potentially can “see” under our clothing.
2. Cease and desist all invasive patdowns that involve touching genitalia unless there is probable cause to believe that the individual has committed a crime.
3. Cease immediately harassment of people who assert their constitutional rights during airport screening.
http://wh.gov/RPx
Thanks for signing.
April 11, 2012 at 1:27 pm
There was a similar petition filed there about six months ago, I think? It got the requisite number of signatures. The response to it came from the head of the TSA, and it boiled down to “Oh you silly people. We’re keeping you SAFE! Look at all the things we do to keep you safe. F#@$ your petition.”
I suspect that’s the only response we’re going to get until or unless someone above and beyond the TSA actually takes steps to disband it.
April 11, 2012 at 8:43 pm
Of course! That’s why I write my senators and congressman EVERY time I am groped by TSA asking that they disband or defund the agency. But we have to use all avenues and keep up the pressure. Please sign the petition: http://wh.gov/RPx
Thanks.
April 10, 2012 at 2:23 pm
Classic example of a dishonest and incompetent Congress who blatantly LIES to the public. Criminal Congress.
April 10, 2012 at 4:58 pm
When I was on staff at the Pentagon, the generals would routinely roll their eyes during the conference calls with the Department of Homeland Security. The moronity and political goonsmanship goes all the way to the top at that agency.
April 11, 2012 at 9:20 am
Thanks for the super solid work, Jon. I appreciate you fighting the good fight on this one for all of us, and your savvy with creating engaging content to really expose the matter is fantastic.
Hey everyone, I just donated $20 to the cause, took me 2 minutes. I reckon that if even just one in ten of us kick him a few bucks, Jon’ll be well supported to continue to rock on this front and make a real impact in primo grassroots style.
Go be one of the one in ten, will you?
April 11, 2012 at 8:39 pm
If one in 10 visitors donated $20, I’d be a multimillionaire by now. 😉 But so far, nearly 100 generous individuals like yourself have donated over the last year and a half, and I’m quite thankful!
April 11, 2012 at 10:31 am
Hey there. It seems that you’ve put a lot of effort into this article. It’s a pity that you would use the phrase “epic fail” in such an important piece. The type of people who favor the scanners (the ones who the article should appeal to) are often too traditional to identify with the phrase. It sullies the article by giving it an unprofessional feel.
April 11, 2012 at 10:33 am
Reblogged this on thelittlep and commented:
The TSA is such a waste.
April 11, 2012 at 10:51 am
Thanks for the interview. It illustrates to many what a large number have been suspecting all along.
One complaint though – do not put editorilizations in the middle of the transcript unless they are things you actually said. Let the reader make their own inferance from what is being said. If you need to ‘help’ the reader along do so at the end or actually do it in your conversation.
Remember – you want to come off as a creadable reporter/researcher rather than some nut-case with a cause. You will get much, much, more traction in your case if you resemble Mike Wallace rather than Michael Moore. Also, if you can get 10-20 interviews with similar questions you can get a trend. Right now you have a single data point. That single data point can easily, very easily, be discounted, dismissed, or discreadited. Much harder when you have 20 points from 5 different airports.
I would pick TSA reps from Washington Reagan (heart of DC), Washington Dulles, Boston’s Logan (e.g. O’Hare and LAX)
These three are home to politicians and the collective 9/11 conscious.
If you want politicians to wake up – make them think that THEY are not safe.
April 11, 2012 at 11:16 am
Though some of the readership may not be familiar with the term “epic fail,” as far as it’s slang/meme origins, – the meaning is clear still.
I don’t see anyone asking for clarification….
Of all the things to take from the article…maybe lighten up a bit.
April 11, 2012 at 11:41 am
Looks like the epic vulnerability could be fixed simply by 2 scans, and you turn sideways. That doesn’t fix the rest of the debate on nude body viewing and groping, but it would fix the issue of slipping stuff through in the manner of the video.
April 11, 2012 at 12:01 pm
or the radiation..that’s is kind of serious, you know cancer and stuff kind of suck!
April 12, 2012 at 9:37 am
Cancer causing agents are everywhere. Simply passing through a scanner won’t do anything to you.
April 11, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Hi Jon — I’m very supportive of your position on the TSA. It has changed my behavior in that I will never use their new machines and insist on a time/labor consuming pat-down whenever I do have to fly. I say this with the best intentions: I expect that the TSA will come out with some other “legitimate” reason that Jennifer was fired. You will be left with a “he-said-she-said” unless you have other evidence to support her claims of being fired for being a whistleblower. Some might see this as a digruntled former employee that is making things up. Please keep digging on Jennifer’s story and I look forward to hearing about a successful wrongful termination suit as well as more details on the other failures of this useless organization. Thanks again for your hard work and good luck!
April 11, 2012 at 12:19 pm
I had my buttocks patted down by a TSA employee back in January because I had forgotten about a hotel room key card I’d left in the back pocket of my jeans. They weren’t allowing anyone through the metal detectors that day. It was the radiation scanner or the full blown public pat down. No other option. I went ‘fine’, and went through the damn scanner because I don’t care for strangers manhandling me. I’m a woman, and I don’t like being touched. When the screener asked me if there was something in my pocket, I promptly went “Oh!” and produced the card for their inspection. I got my butt patted down and my hands swabbed for explosive residue anyway. It made me feel like a criminal in the lineup, all because I neglected to remember a piece of plastic the size of a credit card in my pocket.
Perhaps laughably (despite the fact that it still pisses me off) on the day I suffered through an unnecessary groping of my buttocks, the TSA allowed a woman with a handgun in her purse through security in Dallas. It took them 45 minutes to realize what they’d missed, and she was already onboard her plane and taxiing toward takeoff by the time they actually tracked her down.
April 21, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Private screening, ask for law enforcement to witness
April 11, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Congress? Respect the Constitution? Which century are you living in again?
Sorry, but this country’s been in the hands of scoundrels for decades now.
For them, the Constitution is just an inconvenient piece of paper that hasn’t been sent to the incinerator just yet.
April 11, 2012 at 12:38 pm
have you been interviewed by any newspapers or news shows?
cnn, abc news, foxnews,miami herald,boston globe, sunsentinel, wsvn etc…
p.s. keep up the great work!
April 11, 2012 at 2:06 pm
Reblogged this on Bryan Basamanowicz and commented:
Been following Jonathan’s work for a while. This guy is smart, tenacious, a real hero.
April 11, 2012 at 2:09 pm
I briefly reviewed your pleading. If service of the complaint was defective, it will be dismissed; you will need to start all over and re-file and serve it properly, unless dismissed with prejudice (and then it’s a waste of time to re-file, of course). You need to call a service processing company immediately and have them serve the TSA – before this, you will need to learn how to serve the TSA properly and don’t look to the court or the TSA attorneys to tell you or to sign some waiver. That’s ridiculous. In your Memorandum, you need to prove that they were properly served, not discuss how they still can be in 4 days if necessary. Chances are, the complaint will be dismissed on this basis alone.
April 11, 2012 at 2:31 pm
Respectfully, no. US government defendants are served by USPS Certified Mail. See Fed. R. Civ. P., Rule 4(i). Other defendants (such as Broward County) can be served by getting them to sign a waiver of service or by personally serving them. Broward County is retarded for saying that because I asked them to sign a waiver, I didn’t effect service, when the time limit for service isn’t even close to up.
April 11, 2012 at 2:12 pm
Well, call a service processing company and serve the complaint and supporting documents to the attorney(s) of record for the TSA. Then file a personal affidavit in support of the memorandum citing the process server’s affidavit of service. It’s crazy, I know.
April 11, 2012 at 2:32 pm
While appreciate what you are trying to do, this sensationalized headline really hurts your credibility. You didn’t get the TSA to admit this, you got a supposed TSA employee to admit it. This is really no better than the hacks at Fox News distorting headlines. You really should clean that up.
April 11, 2012 at 4:00 pm
But not as bad as the hacks at NBC news editing George Zimmerman’s 9-11 call so I guess overall credibility of this post hangs somewhere above NBC news but somewhat below Fox News.
April 11, 2012 at 7:04 pm
If you think that Fox News makes things up, you have no clue about what the TSA does or doesn’t do; go home and masturbate to Jon Stewart.
April 12, 2012 at 7:08 am
Did I say Fox News “makes things up” or did I say they distort headlines? Because I could have sworn I said they distort headlines.
April 11, 2012 at 4:27 pm
[Blog owner note: This user posted from an L-3 Communications network (manufacurer of the L-3 Provision millimeter wave nude body scanner)]
This is the curious approach to “prove” ineffectiveness of the scanners. The metal detectors NEVER detect explosives, the scanners sometimes do (I expect the quantification of “sometimes” is a classified number). Ergo -> we are all safer!
April 11, 2012 at 5:01 pm
Your assumption is that explosives are non-metallic. A completely non-metallic IED is exceedingly rare and difficult to produce, and if one has the expertise to do so, you can “rest assured” that they have the expertise to pass them through the scanners.
…and we haven’t even gotten into guns. Metal detectors ALWAYS detect guns, the scanners sometimes do. Right? 🙂
April 11, 2012 at 5:02 pm
Also, I noticed you’re logged in from an L-3 Communications network (manufacurer of the L-3 Provision millimeter wave nude body scanner). Is your comment on behalf of your employer or a personal comment?
April 11, 2012 at 9:33 pm
I recently flew from SEA/TAC to SLC. As I went through the scanner, the male TSA officer said I was ok and let me go (score!). The next TSA (female) agent down got upset and said to the first “no! No! She has a ponytail, you need to check her hair.” She then said several times “he’s a man, he doesn’t know what he’s doing, we girls know what we’re doing.”
First off, I always fly with a ponytail because I usually have huge carry on duffle bags and I don’t want to deal with my hair. This was the first time I was ever stopped because of my plain choice of hairstyle. Second, I just thught she was sexist against men.
Not really sure if my experience means anything, I know a lot of people have gone through worse. I just thought someone out there might find it odd/interesting.
April 12, 2012 at 4:36 am
How about you rename that, “Former TSA Employee”? You didn’t get the TSA to admit anything. Was she an actual TSA Agent (a GS) or a contractor? I am betting she was a contractor which is not quite the same as a real TSA Agent. GS’s are nearly impossible to fire. They are more difficult to fire than any union member. Contractors on the other hand are pretty easy to get rid of and 3 months sounds about right for that speed of dismissal.
April 12, 2012 at 8:23 am
As you well know, I think this is a good initiative. Exposing security theatre anywhere meets with my approval. However, the title of this blog entry is deceiving. This is not an admission from the TSA but allegations (probably true) of a former TSA employee with regard to the TSA. The title should be amended … One should not resort to the practices of those playing security theatre (i.e. the TSA).
April 12, 2012 at 9:16 am
lol yet again the TSA proves itself useless. Biggest WASTE of an agency there is.
http://www.Get-Anon.tk
April 12, 2012 at 9:42 am
It’s always funny listening to people completely bash your own homeland security, but as per the usual, offer no actual constructive criticism. Bunch of hippy, occupy protesting, school kids in my eyes.
One day, you’re all crying about tightening security and KILL THE TERRORISTS!!, but when your own government tries to implement a system, regardless of whether it works or not, you’re all there to flail your arms in protest about invasion of privacy. Well children, freedom/security comes at a price, and if you have to walk naked through a scanner, or let some security guard pat you up and down to ensure that freedom/security, well, SUCK IT UP. Your grandfathers would be embarrassed of the whole lot of you after having served in times where they sacrificed 100x more for the greater good of their country and the people who live within it.
So, quit your whining already. You look ridiculous.
April 12, 2012 at 10:01 am
how can you claim being groped scanned with radiation or having your apple juice taken away (belts and shoes taken off) be a cost of freedom or security? certainly freedom is a word you should look up and the constitution is of no concern to you(civil/human rights)! security my backside…security theater is more like it and the number of tsa “agents” arrested on a weekly basis is a creepy testament to the quality of people the tsa hires you know folks protecting us (just following orders)
April 12, 2012 at 10:22 am
So, people should then just be allowed to walk freely through airports without being searched? Are you thinking before you’re speaking?
In a perfect world with gumballs and lollipop lanes, one would be able to simply walk straight thorough an airport and directly onto a plane without so much as a second glance… but we live in a world that is so incredibly far from perfect that such a notion is just not plausible.
To reiterate: there are sacrifices to be made in order to maintain freedom… you know, the freedoms that you so very easily take for granted. I’m not talking about the freedom to walk onto an airplane without being searched. That’s so completely insignificant that the very fact you hippies cry about it shows the world just how thankful you are for all those that have, and continue to, sacrifice their lives so you can sit on the internet and cry about dumb shit.
Groped… haven’t you ever been patted down by security before? Is it really, and I mean REALLY, such an invasion of privacy? It takes 20 seconds and you move on without ever thinking about it again. And radiation… give me a break… nobody’s dying from going through a scanner at an airport LMAO. You’re probably one of those people who jogs through the city during rush hour, sucking in all those exhaust fumes from the cars in traffic complaining about an airport scanner that you may or may not go through 2 times in your life.
And LET the TSA agents be arrested. That’s a good thing. There are people like that at every workplace in the world. Don’t continue to have a hard-on for TSA agents like they’re the demons of the earth.
April 12, 2012 at 12:23 pm
You are a complete and total moron…our ancestors went to war to give freedom from all the shit were getting now. No one is crying, we all have a very good reason to be pissed off. Its people like you that hide there head in the sand with the hope it will fix its-self, (and I guess getting your rights trampled on is OK, cause all you do is bitch about hippies???) If they are such a threat to your delicate sensabilities then you deserve all the shit that’s coming as a police state. T.S.A. aren’t cops and yet you are willing to bend over just as if they were real law enforcement. When you say suck it up, to anyone else, just think about the next time you fly anywhere. You might just have to swallow your own words in Gitmo. Dumbass.
April 12, 2012 at 12:52 pm
Oh yeah, one more thing, I don’t know what kind of delusion your living in…. but you are doing a grave injustice to the name Batman. I’d be surprised if you even read one of those comics. At least Bats stood up for what he knew was wrong, unlike you who praises people getting screwed over by a former high school punk with chip on his/her shoulder. I know its scary to take off the blinders every once in awhile, but look at it this way…. eventually you will be able to look into the light of truth and not go blind. Till then please try not to sound like a total duche. Hold your thoughts, don’t speak, and listen. All anyone wants is freedom, and at this time were loosing parts of that, one small piece at a time. Hey if all else fails you can move to Korea. At least there you don’t have to listen to people that have an opinion that’s not to your liking ( sorry but you sound like you would fit in perfect) and we will keep trying to keep our constitutional rights, you remember the ones that all the old timers fought and died so you could be a bitch and rag on people. I don’t like posting using foul language on a post, but your stupidity and blind ignorance has offended me, so crawl back in your hole and repeat ” my precious, my precious” cause you sound like a fucking troll.
April 12, 2012 at 11:33 am
Believe it or not, Batman, we used to live in a country where you COULD walk onto an airplane without ANY security. And so could your family, friends, and anyone who wanted to see you off or meet your flight could do so right at the gate. This was a time when our country and its people were strong. Our enemies wouldn’t have even considered trying something like 9/11 because they would have been too afraid of the consequences. Unfortunately, today we have the pc entitlement mind-set of people like you who think its ok to have someone who is not even a bona fide law enforcement officer sliding their hand up into your crotch just so you can board an aircraft to go on vacation. The great military men and women that serve this country should not be sacrificing their lives so that things like this can go on in their own country. I’m not a hippy. It’s the idiots like you who are allowing the TSA to get away with this “dumb shit”
April 12, 2012 at 12:22 pm
batman why stop at airports, we should grope and scan people all day every where..malls, schools, resturants, hospitals, flea markets,concerts, supermarkets! tens of millions of targets and you could never be to safe! since 9/11/01 400,000 people in the United States have been killed in car accidents, nobody really seems to want to be pro active with that! maybe everybody should have to have a complete car inspection every morning, do a breath alazyer before they leave their driveway and check points could be set up every 100 feet on every road. where vison tests would be given and reflex testing as well as check if people are to tired to drive! if somebody complains they should arrested by the local police and told never question what is being done it is for national security and freedom! the fact it would take 15 hours to drive 5 miles is not important and the body scans 20-30 times a day and the groping 20 -30 times a day is just a cost of “freedom” oh yeah no liquids would be allowed in your car or in a mall,hospital etc!!!
April 12, 2012 at 12:24 pm
Well maybe if brought all our troops home and closed all foreign bases, we’d have a lot less people pissed off at us.
Then we could focus on Intelligence and actually acting on it. The Bush Admin had the intelligence they ignored it. They should have been fired on the spot for gross incompetence.
Let’s face it, this guy is right, it’s all theater at our expense. It has also resulted in massively arming the local police like we are all terrorists.
All of this and the war on drugs is a joke, a very expensive joke. There are so many loopholes it’s scary.
I cringe every time I see an old couple at the airport removing their shoes and belts, holding on to their pants while they can barely walk.! That’s just plain mean and stupid.
But some people are getting very rich with this!
April 12, 2012 at 2:15 pm
Keep up the good work keeping the US from falling apart. Now if I can just get properly subscribed to this blog…
April 12, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Just ignore Batman. He is probably paid to post those sort of comments.
April 12, 2012 at 9:49 pm
Maybe he’d have a little more credibility if he wasn’t wearing blue nail polish.
April 13, 2012 at 10:00 am
So basically what you are saying is the people helped most by these scanners are the terrorists. The scanners are so easy to fool as well as their failure to work as advertized makes it easier for a terrorist to go through the scanner then to allow any alternate methods.
It makes you wonder which side the TSA is on. It seems they are doing their best to help; promote terrorism by encouraging use of techniques and methods that are known not to work and discouraging use of methods that are known TO work.
April 13, 2012 at 7:47 pm
Haha last time I was at the airport I was wearing a pair of shorts that the button had fallen off of and when I took off my belt and had to hold them up, I didn’t realize that the zipper came undone (because I was pulling them on each side and there was no button). The TSA Lady gave me a once over with the wand while looking straight up in the air (thought it was odd that she didn’t pat me down or even look at me). Got about ten steps when my friend walks up and whispers “your junk is hanging out.”
Lesson learned: If you want to skate through airport security, whip it out.
April 15, 2012 at 9:14 am
it is more effective if you are under 12! TSA agents have a history of being arrested for kiddie porn and such! they prefer the young ones!
April 16, 2012 at 8:00 am
Jon, YOU ROCK! Thank you, thank you, thank you for all you are doing! I am forwarding your damning videos to everybody I know, to get the word out.
In the meantime, I have a vested interest in what you are doing: I’m actually working in Europe, and because I don’t want to be subjected to TSA abuse, I’m essentially stuck over here, unable to come home to the US even for a visit! The more facts you bring to light about TSA fraud, the sooner the day will come when I’ll be able to get on a plane headed home–knowing that I won’t later be harassed in the name of bogus “security” by TSA when it’s time to fly back to my job overseas. You are doing your fellow Americans a lot of good–please keep it up!