Your uncontrollable fits of rage toward the TSA haven't gone unnoticed. TSA chief John Pistole recently told a Congressional panel that he plans to implement strategies that are effective, yet allow passengers to travel without the feeling that TSA agents think they've killed someone and are determined to find…
When blogger Jill Filipovic unpacked after her most recent trip, she noticed that TSA screeners had found her vibrator. And they'd left her the above note.
You can rest easy next time you fly, because TSA screeners are ensuring our safety by thoroughly inspecting the chests of breast cancer survivors, and dismissing their pleas for basic human sensitivity.
"My hair is called an Afro," says Isis Brantley in the video above. The Dallas hairdresser hasn't cut her hair since she was 12 years old. She says it was that hair that led her to be chased down by a TSA guard and subjected to an extra patdown. The TSA claims she left before the full inspection was completed.
Perhaps embarrassed by the many YouTube videos in which agents frisk small children while parents look on in horror, the TSA has announced that it will be deemphasizing patdowns in children twelve and under.
Some black women with natural hair report receiving hair pat-downs from TSA employees — in some cases while white women with similar hair sailed through. Is this a case of racial profiling?
The TSA has apologized — sort of — to a pregnant woman who says agents took her insulin even though she had a doctor's note stating it was necessary. Will new procedures bring an end to all these airport horror stories?
A Colorado woman was arrested on Thursday for an unusual crime: groping a TSA agent. Now a grassroots movement is rallying behind her.
The Transportation Security Administration has written itself quite the storied history, especially after they took up more "aggressive" pat-down techniques and full-body scans last fall. Hundred of disturbed flyers later and we're all still annoyed and perhaps even slightly irradiated.
Well, it finally happened. Airport security officers gave a pat-down to a baby.
In case you were concerned, the TSA remains vigilant in its efforts to protect passengers from bomb-toting tots. Here, an eight-year-old boy gets a patdown — on his way to Disneyland, no less. Luckily, he was found to have no weapons, and the Magic Kingdom could breathe easily for another day.
Rest assured that the TSA is keeping us safe from adorable little girls. In a video that surfaced today on YouTube, and agent is shown giving a girl a thorough pat-down, including running her hand over her chest and groin, and putting a finger inside her waistband. Before the search starts, the mother asks, "Can't…
[LAX, February 1. Image via Bauer-Griffin.]
Lynsie Murley, who sued the TSA after her breasts were exposed during a 2008 frisking, will receive a small settlement from the government. In addition to pulling her blouse down, she says TSA agents "joked and laughed about the incident."
A woman with a pacemaker was arrested and banned from the Austin airport this week for refusing a TSA patdown of her breasts. Claire Hirschkind, 56, says she's a rape victim and that her constitutional rights were violated.
LOS ANGELES, DEC 3: Anna Kournikova gets the full TSA pat down as she prepares to depart a late night flight at LAX.
These images (of unknown origin) are apparently real X-rays. The "calendar" isn't just a way to capitalize on concerns about the new TSA scanners. Without actual flesh, there's that much less to Photoshop. Update: Origin found! Clever repurposing.
There were no major junk-touching skirmishes reported from airports this Thanksgiving travel weekend. But that doesn't mean the pushback is over, not with resurgent reports of young mothers and menstruating women, among others, grabbing headlines.
Rage against the new TSA requirements has tended to erase, or caricature, one very key constituency: air-travel employees. That includes mostly female flight attendants, who, unlike pilots, haven't been exempted from enhanced patdown procedures, as well as reluctant TSA employees.
The TSA's new security procedures are such a nightmare that even Hillary Clinton says she'd avoid them if possible. But in some ways, women are used to this stuff.
