Director John Pistole told reporters Monday that for the time being the TSA had no plans of doing body cavity searches."We're not going to get in the business of body cavities, that's not where we are," Pistole said.
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"We are taking some risk by not doing any screening, but it's the balance of what is the appropriate level of risk versus screening," he said.
"We want to treat each passenger with dignity and respect," Pistole added.
For the time being.
The very soul of dignity, that.
Michael Steel, a spokesman for House Republican Leader John Boehner, confirmed Friday that members of Congress are exempt.
Of course.
And how's this for dignity?
One employee of ABC News who opted for the pat-down instead of the full body scan claimed that a TSA agent actually felt inside of her underwear."The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around," said ABC News producer Carolyn Durand. "It was basically worse than going to the gynecologist."
A retired teacher from Lansing, Michigan, says he had to walk through an airport and board a plane covered in urine after TSA agents tore open his urostomy bag during a pat-down.
A flight attendant who is a breast cancer survivor says she was horrified when, during an "aggressive" pat-down at the Charlotte, North Carolina, airport, she was ordered to expose her prosthetic breast to two female TSA staffers.
Video of TSA agents searching a shirtless 5-year-old boy has become an internet sensation. A Utah man reportedly removed his son's shirt during the screening process after the boy was too shy to let TSA agents search him.
And what of THIS?
In a related incident, a man at Lindbergh Field was arrested after stripping down to his underwear to avoid undergoing a TSA pat down, NBC San Diego reports."TSA needs to see that I'm not carrying any weapons, explosives, or other prohibited substances, I refuse to have images of my naked body viewed by perfect strangers, and having been felt up for the first time by TSA the week prior, I was not willing to be molested again," he said in a statement released by his attorney Sunday.
He was arrested!
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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