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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday March 07 2017, @05:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-drive dept.

TSA agents will soon conduct a more invasive patdown at U.S. airports:

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has declined to say exactly where—and how—employees will be touching air travelers as part of the more invasive physical pat-down procedure it recently ordered. But the agency does expect some passengers to consider the examination unusual. In fact, the TSA decided to inform local police in case anyone calls to report an "abnormal" federal frisking, according to a memo from an airport trade association obtained by Bloomberg News. The physical search, for those selected to have one, is what the agency described as a more "comprehensive" screening, replacing five separate kinds of pat-downs it previously used.

The decision to alert local and airport police raises a question of just how intimate the agency's employees may get. On its website, the TSA says employees "use the back of the hands for pat-downs over sensitive areas of the body. In limited cases, additional screening involving a sensitive area pat-down with the front of the hand may be needed to determine that a threat does not exist."

[...] The TSA's calls to police were an effort to provide local law enforcement "situational awareness" about the new pat-down method, Christopher Bidwell, ACI-NA's vice president of security, said in an interview Saturday. U.S. airports have not expressed any reservations or concerns about the pat-down change, the association said.

Also at Boing Boing, The Consumerist, NBC, and LA Times.


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @02:29PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @02:29PM (#476020)

    Stop trivializing the term rape by using it for things that are not de facto rape, you're just as bad as the government using terrorism for "any behavior we don't like".

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @05:16PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @05:16PM (#476071)

    Full-on penetration occurs in some "more comprehensive" searches. That is the definition of rape.

    • (Score: 2) by edIII on Tuesday March 07 2017, @08:54PM

      by edIII (791) on Tuesday March 07 2017, @08:54PM (#476169)

      No, it does not. There is enough false information going around, don't need to add.

      1) I don't know about private screenings, but I know about public ones. You have the option of being patted down in front of everyone.

      2) From TSA agents directly, I've been told that cavity searches ARE NOT performed by TSA agents. That occurs by local police, so take up your issues with them. When you get processed into jails and prisons, the TSA pat downs start to look amazingly innocent in comparison.

      3) These "rapists" are anything but willing. Just another wage slaver like you and I, and they don't want to do it. Not at all. The use of "rape" is completely inaccurate, but if you wish to assign it to the correct people, then lay those accusations down at the feet of those truly in charge of TSA policies and procedures. If anything, both the traveler and TSA agents are victims.

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  • (Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday March 07 2017, @06:36PM

    by sjames (2882) on Tuesday March 07 2017, @06:36PM (#476114) Journal

    If you walked up to a woman on the street and did those things, what do you suppose she would yell (before pepper spraying you)?

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @11:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 07 2017, @11:23PM (#476219)

    Yeah... unlike with real rape, the TSA doesn't give you the option of just keeping your legs closed.