Who is exempt from airport security?

[harvey007]

Source: Washington Post

Increased scrutiny of airport security is raising questions about which public officials must endure the stepped-up security procedures. Here's a review of who can and cannot bypass airport security, according to the Transportation Security Administration and congressional and Obama administration aides.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/22/AR2010112205978.html

[liberal N proud]

1. The real terrorist get to walk on through

Congressmen

[valerief]

4. +666 trillion! nt

[somone]

2. They forgot a category

CIA agents and people traveling with them.

[harvey007]

6. Foreign diplomats, too

I recall reading that foreign diplomats get special treatment, if not exemption, from TSA screeners.

If anyone knows current TSA policy re: screening accredited diplomats, please post.

Which reminds me.... remember this guy?

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6948892.html

[valerief]

3. Don't all the wealthy folk fly their own jets anyway? nt

[HockeyMom]

5. My daughter would have been impossible when she was little

She would tell anyone who even patted her on the head, "Don't TOUCH ME." Full body pat down? She would have been screaming, and hitting them.

[tpsbmam]

7. What a bullshit list -- is that intended to placate us?

I'm positive those Washington VIPs who are expected to go through screenings are pulled aside and made to go through the nude image/radiation-spewing screening and/or the genital groping. I'm sure of it.
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[avaistheone1]

8. You mean to say that a crackpot like the orange Boner get to go through without a body

scanning or a full genital groping?

[Matariki]

9. I wonder if they'll feel up under the Dalai Lama's robe.

I hear he flies commercial.

[somone]

10. He gets Secret Service protection

whenever he visits the U.S., so he's exempt.

[JDPriestly]

12. And then, there are nuns and priests.

What about the women who wear burkas and the like? I suppose this is targeted to discourage people who wear such clothing from flying.

[JDPriestly]

11. What about TSA personnel and management?