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The TSA is even worse than we thought
Some of the strongest reactions by readers come when they discuss their experiences flying in the U.S., and have to encounter the agents of Transportation Security Administration, or TSA. Those agents are the dictators who order you around when you’re passing through security, make you stand in the See-You-Naked Machine, and run their hands over your body. I myself have groused at least twice (here and here) for being groped by agents on the “buttocks” (the term they use when they’re about to goose you.) The TSA has been the butt (pun intentional) of much malice and ridicule everywhere, and is repeatedly accused of promulgating ineffective “security theater.” Those accusations are on the money.
What’s been missing so far is an “inside” view of the TSA written by a real agent. Well, that’s been rectified by the publication of a piece in Jan. 30’s Politico Magazine by ex-TSA…
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