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Confessions of a Gestapo Thug.
A former Transportation Security Administration agent has stepped forward and is offering up more information about the nations airline security agency, sure to send a shiver up passengers spines.
Dear America, I saw you naked and yes, we were laughing. Confessions of an ex-TSA agent Jason Edward Harrington, a former TSA agent (stationed at Chicago OHare International Airport) turned author, titles his article in Politico Magazine.
Harrington who initially wrote about his experiences as an agent on an anonymous blog walks readers through troubling circumstance after troubling circumstance.
Just as the long-suffering American public waiting on those security lines suspected, jokes about the passengers ran rampant among my TSA colleagues: Many of the images we gawked at were of overweight people, their every fold and dimple on full awful display, Harrington writes of the full-body nude scanners that TSA pulled in 2013. Piercings of every kind were visible. Women whod had mastectomies were easy to discerntheir chests showed up on our screens as dull, pixelated (sic) regions. Hernias appeared as bulging, blistery growths in the crotch area.
Not only were these scanners invasive but they were also ineffective a fact, Harrington writes, TSA knew.
We knew the full-body scanners didnt work before they were even installed. Not long after the Underwear Bomber incident, all TSA officers at OHare were informed that training for the Rapiscan Systems full-body scanners would soon begin. The machines cost about $150,000 a pop, he wrote, recalling one instructor who told a class of TSA officers that the scanners were shit.
And while the full-body scanners have been scrapped, Harrington offers additional details about TSA officers day-to-day, including pat downs for rude customers, code lingo for attractive women, and seizures of items.
Once, in 2008, I had to confiscate a bottle of alcohol from a group of Marines coming home from Afghanistan, he writes. It was celebration champagne intended for one of the men in the groupa young, decorated soldier, He was in a wheelchair, both legs lost to an I.E.D., and it fell to me to tell this kid who would never walk again that his homecoming champagne had to be taken away in the name of national security....
Read more: Former TSA agent: Your worst fears about us were true | The Daily Caller
A former Transportation Security Administration agent has stepped forward and is offering up more information about the nations airline security agency, sure to send a shiver up passengers spines.
Dear America, I saw you naked and yes, we were laughing. Confessions of an ex-TSA agent Jason Edward Harrington, a former TSA agent (stationed at Chicago OHare International Airport) turned author, titles his article in Politico Magazine.
Harrington who initially wrote about his experiences as an agent on an anonymous blog walks readers through troubling circumstance after troubling circumstance.
Just as the long-suffering American public waiting on those security lines suspected, jokes about the passengers ran rampant among my TSA colleagues: Many of the images we gawked at were of overweight people, their every fold and dimple on full awful display, Harrington writes of the full-body nude scanners that TSA pulled in 2013. Piercings of every kind were visible. Women whod had mastectomies were easy to discerntheir chests showed up on our screens as dull, pixelated (sic) regions. Hernias appeared as bulging, blistery growths in the crotch area.
Not only were these scanners invasive but they were also ineffective a fact, Harrington writes, TSA knew.
We knew the full-body scanners didnt work before they were even installed. Not long after the Underwear Bomber incident, all TSA officers at OHare were informed that training for the Rapiscan Systems full-body scanners would soon begin. The machines cost about $150,000 a pop, he wrote, recalling one instructor who told a class of TSA officers that the scanners were shit.
And while the full-body scanners have been scrapped, Harrington offers additional details about TSA officers day-to-day, including pat downs for rude customers, code lingo for attractive women, and seizures of items.
Once, in 2008, I had to confiscate a bottle of alcohol from a group of Marines coming home from Afghanistan, he writes. It was celebration champagne intended for one of the men in the groupa young, decorated soldier, He was in a wheelchair, both legs lost to an I.E.D., and it fell to me to tell this kid who would never walk again that his homecoming champagne had to be taken away in the name of national security....
Read more: Former TSA agent: Your worst fears about us were true | The Daily Caller