Can TSA agents do cavity searches?

[dkf]

It sounds like those gloves are getting into peoples underwear and groping around in there. Where does their authorization stop?

[Orrex]

1. I sure as hell hope so, because I can hardly afford to go to the dentist.

Oh, wait a minute...

[dkf]

2. Lol.

[Poll_Blind]

3. And how frequently do they change those gloves? I bet not often. Disease transmission vector. n/t

PB

[dkf]

6. What if you have your period too? Ugh.

[katnapped]

9. According to other posters, they're not changed n/t

[Poll_Blind]

13. This is totally anecdotal but from all the video I've seen that would seem to be the case.

The gloves are to protect the TSA agents from catching anything from/giving anything to the passengers, not preventing passenger to passenger transmission via dirty gloves.

PB

[notesdev]

4. Not if

nobody shows up at the airport to be abused... I hear airports are virtually empty relative to the normal Thanksgiving traffic.

Looks like people are "opting out" by deciding not to fly at all.

[itsrobert]

5. "it sounds like"

Do we/you know it for a fact?

Or are people exaggerating?

[dkf]

7. Found a news report on it.

An ABC News employee said she was subject to a "demeaning" search at Newark Liberty International Airport Sunday morning.

"The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around," she said. "It was basically worse than going to the gynecologist. It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate."


http://abcnews.go.com/m/screen?id=12208932

Apparently it is beyond the protocols.

[emulatorloo]

8. Yes, against protocols - a little further in the article

The head of the Transportation Security Administration John Pistole today said that at least one airport passenger screening went too far when an officer reached inside a traveler's underwear, and said the agency is open to rethinking current protocols.

That search was against protocols and "never" should have happened, TSA administrator Pistole told "Good Morning America" today.

"There should never be a situation where that happens," Pistole said. "The security officers are there to protect the traveling public. There are specific standard operating protocols, which they are to follow."

[katnapped]

10. Pistole is full of it

He's just annoyed that people are resisting. Typical thug jack boot attitude.

[emulatorloo]

11. How do you get that out of the quote?

Where he says what happened to that ABC employee should never have happened?

[NorthCarolina]

12. The TSA could add prostate screening and mammograms, and Obama could call it a Public Option. nt