I do not believe this story. At all. In it, a male TSA worker conducts the pat-down on the woman. The TSA is many, many bad things, and one of them is 'bureaucracy', and the TSA's bureaucracy has bureaucracized that female attendants do the patdowns on female passengers. The TSA gates are all staffed with women partly for that reason.
It appears to be silly season on TSA security checkpoint stories. Recently, a woman claimed to have been detained by the TSA, handcuffed to a chair, and verbally abused by the attendants for asking to opt out. TSA posted the video. Suffice it to say: no.
A breach of TSA rules like "man pats down woman" is extraordinarily clear and nightmarishly bad PR. I don't buy that it could have happened without an official TSA response.
I say this, lest someone think to compose a 19 paragraph response about how little I understand about the implications of the TSA, as someone who loathes the TSA and is intellectually offended by airport security in general.
It appears to be silly season on TSA security checkpoint stories. Recently, a woman claimed to have been detained by the TSA, handcuffed to a chair, and verbally abused by the attendants for asking to opt out. TSA posted the video. Suffice it to say: no.
A breach of TSA rules like "man pats down woman" is extraordinarily clear and nightmarishly bad PR. I don't buy that it could have happened without an official TSA response.
I say this, lest someone think to compose a 19 paragraph response about how little I understand about the implications of the TSA, as someone who loathes the TSA and is intellectually offended by airport security in general.