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http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/06/23/tsa.patdown.change/
(CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration is changing its policy on how screeners can search children, the agency's head has said.
TSA Administrator John Pistole announced the change at a Wednesday meeting of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
The change was prompted by outrage over a video-recorded pat-down of a 6-year-old airline passenger at the New Orleans airport on April 5. The video, which was posted on YouTube, shows the girl protesting at first to the search, although she complies quietly while it is under way.
Pistole explained to committee members that a female security screener performed a pat-down search on the 6-year-old girl because the child had moved while passing through an airport body imaging machine. That prevented the device from getting a clear reading that the child was not carrying any banned objects through airport security.
"We have changed the policy to say that there'll be repeated efforts made to resolve that without a pat-down," Pistole told committee members.
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The new policy will apply to children 10 years old or younger, Pistole said.
The incident renewed debate over the the TSA's security practices, especially their use on such low-risk passengers as young children. A backlash against passenger pat-downs -- an alternative to full-body scans in some locations -- swelled during the holiday travel season last year. Pistole maintained at the time that the agency walks a fine line between privacy concerns and public safety.
However, during the committee meeting, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, grilled Pistole for erring thoughtlessly too far on the side of safety.
"This isn't to say we don't believe in safety procedures," Paul said. "But I think I feel less safe when we're doing these invasive exams on a 6-year-old. It makes me think that you're clueless, that you think she's going to attack our country, and that you're not doing your research on the people who would attack our country."
Pistole suggested a pat-down of a child is not entirely unjustified.
"Unfortunately, we know that terrorists around the world have used children as suicide bombers," Pistole replied.
From CNN's Simon Hernandez-Arthur
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Throw Pistole and Napalitano jail for treason. End the TSA, airports use private security as they see fit, problem solved, no more 4th amendment violations.
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Throw Pistole and Napalitano jail for treason. End the TSA, airports use private security as they see fit, problem solved, no more 4th amendment violations.
YES!
Good post,
Also, please have vigilantes round up these abusive TSA agents, and deal with them as they see fit!
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YES!
Good post,
Also, please have vigilantes round up these abusive TSA agents, and deal with them as they see fit!
I like it!
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Throw Pistole and Napalitano jail for treason. End the TSA, airports use private security as they see fit, problem solved, no more 4th amendment violations.
yes yes yes!!
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It looks like they have changed across the board. Recently went through LAX. No scanner, no enhanced pat down. Although I did set off an alarm for a random secondary screening, where they rubbed some cloth on my hand looking for bomb residue.
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It looks like they have changed across the board. Recently went through LAX. No scanner, no enhanced pat down. Although I did set off an alarm for a random secondary screening, where they rubbed some cloth on my hand looking for bomb residue.
i was at lax saturday and went though a scanner
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It looks like they have changed across the board. Recently went through LAX. No scanner, no enhanced pat down. Although I did set off an alarm for a random secondary screening, where they rubbed some cloth on my hand looking for bomb residue.
good thing you didn't just recently clean a fish tank or fertalize your garden. You might have spent the day there.
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i was at lax saturday and went though a scanner
I was there a week ago and did not. Maybe you look like a terrorist? ???
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good thing you didn't just recently clean a fish tank or fertalize your garden. You might have spent the day there.
I'll keep that in mind, but I haven't done yard work in more than ten years. That is a wife (garden) and kids (yard work) thing.
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I was there a week ago and did not. Maybe you look like a terrorist? ???
maybe, or a different terminal
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maybe, or a different terminal
Probably. I've actually gone through a scanner at LAX in the recent past too.
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By the way - obama just helped these perverts unionize and now they get to collectively bargain and further screw the taxpayer.
What a freaking mess. We deserve out miserable fate for allowing this shit to go on unabated.
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T.S.A. Screeners Choose Their Union
AP ^ | June 23, 2011
Posted on June 23, 2011 5:13:19 PM EDT by george76
Airport screeners around the county have chosen the nation’s largest federal employee union to represent them in collective bargaining talks with the government, federal officials announced Thursday.
The American Federation of Government Employees won a close runoff vote to represent about 44,000 employees at the Transportation Security Administration in the largest union election for federal workers in history.
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Republicans have widely criticized the decision to grant collective bargaining rights to airport screeners, arguing the move would threaten the government’s ability to respond quickly during emergencies. The Bush administration refused repeated requests to grant union rights to workers at the T.S.A., which was created after the 9/11 terror attacks. But President Obama promised to reverse that policy during his campaign for the White House.
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Disgusting!