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Female passenger offers firsthand account of ‘sexual assault’ by TSA

by on Sunday, December 2, 2012 at 12:09 PM | Comment

If officers of the Transportation Security Administration are going to continue to “have their way” with female passengers—and it looks like they are—they should at least rent a room. Certainly, they should take the precaution of checking passengers’ credentials.

If they had in the case of Karen H. Kaplan, of Washington, D.C., they might have learned that she is a journalist. Fittingly, Kaplan has written up her experience at Norfolk International Airport on Nov. 25. Her first-person account, which appears in Sunday’s theday.com, makes several critical claims that the TSA should be called upon to react to.

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TSA ‘accidentally’ exposes breasts of lawmaker’s teen grandniece

by on Wednesday, November 21, 2012 at 1:41 PM | Comment

A tweet on Tuesday by Scott MacFarlane, a TV correspondent with Cox Media in Washington, notes that a TSA agent exposed the breasts of a 17-year-old female during a pat-down at Los Angeles International Airport (h/t Twitchy). The teen, whose name is not revealed in the story, is further identified as the grandniece of Republican U.S. Congressman Ralph Hall of Texas.

Hall insists that the girl was “badly mistreated” and that the TSA officer “should’ve been fired.” The agency, however, has deemed the incident “accidental,” claiming that the teen was wearing a “loose-fitting” sundress that contributed to the wardrobe malfunction.

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