This article was written by Steve Watson and first appeared at PrisonPlanet.com.
Editor’s Note: The fact that the passengers are being harassed and intimately searched at airport checkpoints – despite the fact that no terrorist has ever been caught by the TSA – is nothing new, though it remains a source of shame for the nation and serious frustration for airline passengers.
What these Judicial Watch documents do show for the first time is the extent to which supervisors at airports across the country have done little to nothing to stop abusive touching of travelers’ private parts – even in cases where the indulgence of the TSA agent is witnessed or made clear by complaints. Instead, documents show, far too many supervisory and senior figures have joined in to watch travelers be “groped” and touched inappropriately – and have literally laughed right through incidents, becoming accessories rather than watchdogs.
The whole charade of preemptively screening every passenger – and carrying out retribution against those that object and speak out – is not supporting “national security,” it is swiftly turning America into a banana republic with goons at the gates.
Documents: TSA Sexual Abuse Rife; Travelers Have Breasts, Penises Felt While Screeners ‘Roar With Laughter’
By Steve Watson
Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information act have revealed that TSA sexual abuse is still rife in airports across the nation, with Americans complaining of being sexually harassed and groped while screeners laugh and sneer at them.
The documents were uncovered by Judicial Watch, the accountability group who last year filed a lawsuit for more information on alleged sexual assaults at the hands of TSA.
The material comprises 58 pages of passenger complaints from 2013 alone that detail alleged assaults at Dulles International Airport, Chicago O’Hare International Airport, Denver International Airport, Miami International Airport, and Los Angeles International Airport.
Clearly these documents present only a snapshot of what is going on at every airport in the US every day.
Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch, noted that the watchdog group had to fight to get hold of the public records, indicating that “the TSA is more interested in a cover-up than in addressing the problem that its employees violate innocent travelers too often, sexually or otherwise.”
Here is a taster of what the documents contain:
July 5, 2013, “TSA Contact Center Record,” O’Hare Airport:
The female TSO then proceeded to roughly feel of [sic] her breast including her nipples. The TSO didn’t go under her arms or along her sides. She indicated that she did not receive a proper pat down. The search was limited to her breast… Two other individuals came over to where the supervisor and gentleman were and they began laughing. The caller indicated that the incident was not the business of the other two officers and not a show for them. The caller indicated that even the Supervisor, along with the others, began to roar with laughter.
July 29, 2013, “To/From Memo,” O’Hare Airport:
The person began to tell me how TSO [redacted] stuck his hands down his pants and grabbed the top of his penis and placed his fingers in his butt crack… The person was sure that he was violated and wanted to talk to a supervisor…. He said he is going to file a police report with Chicago Police Department and file a lawsuit against TSA and Officer [redacted] and walked away.”
April 7, 2013, at Denver International Airport:
At approximately 14:10 hours on the South Checkpoint, near lane 4 a passenger complained that he sustained an injury resulting from the aggressive actions of the the [sic] TSO [Transportation Security Officer] conducting a pat down search…The passenger stated during the pat-down search he was struck very hard in the groin area, which caused him pain to his left testical [sic].
October 19, 2013, “TSA Contact Center Record,” Los Angeles Airport:
She [TSA agent] then placed full palms squarely on my breasts and then moved around my breasts again. She then placed both palms against my breasts and I was shocked, humiliated, alarmed and assaulted and said ‘Stop! What are you doing? That’s not ok.’… I reported this to TSA Supervisor … She got the manager [redacted] and he said he would look at the video and TSA would send me a letter but it would not tell me the resolution and that I did not have a right to view the video… I will not be sexually assaulted at the airport. As a taxpayer, I pay for the TSA.”
July 6, 2013, “TSA Contact Center Record,” O’Hare Airport:
Caller indicates that her mother feels as though she was singled out because she was a breast cancer survivor and the caller feels as though this is extremely discriminatory. Caller indicates that the breast is an extremely intimate place that should not be rubbed in the manner that it was. Caller expressed that her mother feels extremely violated and the caller feels that being violated in this manner is on the same level as rape. Caller has indicated that her mother will never travel again because of the pat down that she received.
As InfoWars has exhaustively documented, the TSA has a long history of hiring perverts, sexual predators and criminals, so it hardly comes as a surprise that screeners would take advantage of the intrusive pat down procedure for their own gratification.
Last month, Two TSA screeners working at Denver International Airport were fired after it emerged that they had concocted a perverted scheme in order to purposefully grope the genitals of men they found attractive for their own sexual gratification.
The groping of genitals and private areas has been ongoing for years, so it is possible that schemes such as this have been played out in airports nationwide. It is particularly disturbing to note that even children have been regularly exposed to the TSA’s perverted tyranny.
Earlier in the year, a former TSA worker from O’Hare wrote an article for POLITICO detailing how it is merely routine behaviour for TSA agents to exploit their positions for perverted gratification. In the piece entitled “Dear America, I saw you naked” the former agent noted that it is part of a culture within TSA for workers to ogle naked body images from security scanners.
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Steve Watson is a London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.com, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham, and a Bachelor Of Arts Degree in Literature and Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University.
When they come out on the rural roads they will die by the dozens.
Government workers are just as vulnerable to ‘accidents’ as anyone else.
Even accidents ranging from 50 to 300 yards or so.
I enjoy yours and “Copperhead’s” posts…
This article brings the phrase to mind, “From asshole to shoe sole”.
You left out “unionized”, the TSA chimps are unionized sexual molesters, molesting the public twice, by not “working” in the first place,and fondling/groping the flying public, and by being unionized at the taxpayers expense.
We are stupid for putting up with these low level life forms.
TPS, they’re protected by the unions and affirmative action. TSA is all minority people and they get special treatment under federal law.
Stop flying then, you ahve the choice, when the airlines can no longer sustain the lack of passengers, they will collapse. We all win. No more TSA B.S.
NOMFI
unfortunately, they would surely be bailed out (again) by the Fed. gov. via more borrowed/freshly ‘printed’ tax dollars.
while pleasure/leisure travel can be avoided, business travel is pretty much unavoidable, and emergencies do arise where flying can be the best option.
the majority of the public feels safe because of the TSA, so nothing will change.
I’d rather take my chances with the FBI’s fake terrorists.
One way to shutdown the TSA is to boycott air travel. Since the TSA has been enacted, I refused to fly and have not boarded a plane once.
Rodster, I’m the same way. Last time I flew anywhere was 1997, the good ol’ pre-9/11 era when people could still enjoy flying. It’s so bad even the planes are run like prisons now.
Braveheart,
it is even worse than that as some major airlines are having there planes inspected and or repaired in a foreign country where (i know this for a fact) they are using interpreters to translate the manuals into the language of the people who are doing the work!! VERY VERY scary!!
Apache54, that’s scary and interesting. foreigners servicing the aircraft? I’m surprised they’re not crashing left and right.
I don’t fly either.
Also too expensive.
+1 So have I…..
While you do this, air travel increases and new record numbers are being set.
You really think they notice you are missing?
It’s because the sheeple have been conditioned to accept tyranny, i.e. the boiling frog in the pot. I don’t accept tyranny and see it for what it is. Whether they notice me or not I really don’t care. What I do care about is that I stand up for my rights based on the belief that tyranny is wrong and must be opposed.
The more this Nation continues to allow this type of tyranny the more we’ll see militarized police and other forms of oppression. I guess the sheeple are too busy with the NBA, NHL playoffs as well as DWTS to care about anything. It’s the type of society TPTB have set out to create.
I haven’t flown since the TSA came about as well. Even though my lack of patronage might be unnoticed, I have ALL my dignity and I enjoy road trips if travel is needed.
JD Machine, same here. If I can’t get to someplace by driving myself, I just don’t go.
JD~agree.
Don’t care if they notice or not.
as much as everyone hates them, you’d be surprised (or not), if TSA were suddenly removed, just how many people would scream and cry for them to come back. All the abuse makes them feel safe. The boogeyman has worked, and he aint never going away. Just wait til they shoot up a bus or a train or whatever else “they” can dream up to remove some more of our liberties and our right to travel freely unmolested. Eventually we won’t be able to go to a movie without the ticket taker having to check our crotch (not that they actually make anything other than worthless cgi crapola thesedays anyway). Tyrants have an insatiable appetite for power
The next time I fly I’m think about strapping a little cucumber to my inside right leg. Oh wait, they may feel threatened and charge me with smuggling produce, Oh never mind…
You also might make a couple of “new friends for life” with the actions the TSA schlubs take against the taxpaying public. They might just like that cucumber feeling they get…just saying is all.I don’t think they will charge you with “smuggling produce” at all. They might confiscate it to try out later in their locker room….
I hope the movie theaters go that route. Starve Jewish Hollywood!
Just societal and moral decay. Nothing unusual lately. Wish I could get my hands on some of these people. I am human and get enraged at bull like this.
The last time I got on a plane was 1997, good ol’ pre-9/11 era, when you could enjoy flying. I won’t fly anywhere nowadays. No TSA employee or any other govt. thug is allowed to touch me, period. If they try anything with me its at their own peril. It’s also a fact that TSA DOES NOT DO BACKGROUND CHECKS OR EVEN DRUG TESTS ON ANYONE THEY HIRE. The federal employee unions and EEOs prohibit that. Isn’t affirmative action wonderful?
OMG! I’m having flashbacks.
Me and the Mrs. went on a two week trip for a little R&R and wagering in Vegas.
Actually, anything over five days is called “holiday” by the Europeans. So, we went on holiday to Vegas and points beyond.
After losing my ass in Sin City, the wifey wanted to go west and visit wine country. Inroute, I made the mistake of saying I wished she had lost a little more of hers,(ass) back in Vegas.
That kept the chit chat down for a while.
After leaving the first winery, I said, “I guess we are both whiners now”. That resulted in mean looks.
She said just drive, “I have an appointment at the next winery with a man that is supposed to have a rather nice Pinot.”
I just kept quiet.
Then she exclaimed that she was looking forward to tasting his Pinot. That did it.
I said, “Well, hell; you haven’t even touched mine in years”.
Then came the look and, “just drive asshole.”
Drive i did. Right on past the turn off, until it was too late, and too far to turn back. She finally looked up past her soduku book and said, “wtf, thirty miles to Klamath Lake? That’s in Oregon, isn’t it?
“Yea, I hear they have a unique Blue Green Algae that is like drinking from the Fountain of Youth; and a pretty nice B & B.”
She said with another mean look, “you’ll need some damn energy to run around that lake, cause I’m picking up the first big stick I can handle and chase your ass while screaming RAPE!”
Next holiday, I’m thinking of going to the tropics….during a Hurricane. Maybe I can get some action from a female TSA agent.
I am going to be flying with my three small children in a few weeks. The TSA was actually really nice last time, but I’m wondering what would happen if they try to treat my children like this. In America, a private citizen can purchase a ticket from a privately owned company to fly, yet they can’t get on the plane unless the government says so. Land of the free.
Oicu812, I hope you were just joking in that last sentence. You could end up catching something you don’t want. After all, that IS a government employee.
While the TSA feels up grandma they LEOs are training for house to house raids with special forces…
http://www.infowars.com/special-forces-train-with-cops-for-house-to-house-raids/
But don’t worry, this is normal training procedure for LEOs.
Besides, the Republicans will save us! Oh, wait…
It’s horrifying. When the TSA first started in, my seventeen year old daughter went to the airport with us to see her boyfriend to the gates. An agent came toward her from the area where they do all the scanning and asked her to see her ID, probably so she could go on a special list. She’s got long, red hair and is really petite. I noticed the commotion because she started looking visibly upset, and her soldier boyfriend was starting to freak out due to the fact that she wasn’t even headed to the area beyond the gates in the first place, didn’t have her ID yet, and was being barked at by this sweaty, fat guy in a TSA patch that kept licking the corners of his mouth. I had her quickly say goodbye to the boyfriend and we left before his plane took off. He was trying to tell her that anyone in the airport had to have proper ID on them and was subject to search if he wanted. Um. . . no thank you. This was at Indianapolis Intl. btw, if anyone is wondering. So he was wanting to search a girl who wasn’t even getting on a plane, wasn’t in restricted areas, and whose only crime was coming to an airport to see off her guy (who sadly ended up to be a total douchebag btw). We will NEVER go back into an airport.
This could be ended over night, as stated above, dont fly….. Anyone who submits to this endorse it…things have shifted from shades of gray to distinct black and white. The way i see it, we are just S C R E W E D, we all know this whole mess could be fixed but We The People cant get our shit together, and we probably never will in time. We are lazy, domesticated entertainment addicts.
This crap has been going on nearly 7 years and all most people do is bitch about it, by even going to an airport, you are telling the gov. i endorse you feeling up my daughter and grabbing my junk. I mean think about it i see weekly articles like this, still waiting for the one……Airlines considering dropping TSA due to lack of customers…
I just keep hoping when all the sh*t falls apart I can make it back to the farm. I have an intermediate rally point to make it to with arms and food but hope some detail of WTSHTF becomes public before I hit the road…on that day.
The TSA is sh*t and like a flea on a hound. “Don’t mean nothing”…
I am no longer flying. No vacation is worth this. And have to pay to have it done to us.
The tsa has no federal sworn law officers and therefore have no right to do shit!!! But instead of doing something you bunch of sheeple you talk, talk, talk….
They’re in about the same status as other security guards, -a little greater status actually since their presence and duties are authorized and required by law- they can hold you for the State or Feral LE officer that is nearby and he will conduct the official dentition and arrest.
and what is it that you are doing about the TSA, CB?
while it may be true that they “have no right to do shit,” that isn’t going to stop them from doing it.
until enough people refuse to fly and refuse to comply, nothing will change.
when I read incidents such as those above, I am thankful I have chosen to no longer fly, because if I did, and something like this would happen to me, I would either be in jail, in the hospital, or dead, because the MF that did it would wish they wore the TSA uniform.
I have resolved that the first time a TSA agent touches me I will try to beat them to death. At my last abusive “pat down” I clenched my fists, my teeth, kept eye contact, and the guy only used the back of his hands, not touching anything. A joke. I’m not a bad ass and would have gotten my ass kicked, but his nose would have been halfway through his skull on my first strike.
I spent over twenty years in the aircraft industry and know just how much BS this all is. I know how to get a gun on an airplane. Why would you want to do that now? the cockpit is so tight any nutcase can lock the door and kill everyone. Want to try to hijack one, everyone on board is going to try to kill you, and of course you can’t open the cockpit. If the guy starts shooting, pop the air valve, everyone will be quickly glued to an oxygen mask. Want to blow it up, OK. That’s quicker than waiting twenty minutes for a CFIT.
TSA is a jobs program for Democrat LIV, minorities, and a bonanza for baggage thieves.
Paging sgt dale, job opening here for a man of your ” experience”.
Ha ha haaah.
i smell a troll.
No buttcrack, it’s probably your underwear. Try changing it once a month and it should improve the atmosphere plenty.
I’ve only been on an airplane twice in my lifetime, to and from Vietnam. Flying, no thanks!
TWA, Seaboard World, or Braniff?
Ever fly Tree Top Airlines, (TTA)? Biggest airline in the world if it could only have gotten high enough.
If people would quit flying how long do you think TSA would be around.
They’re not going away, their duties are currently expanding to other public transportation and public events like football games, fairs, and such.
Soon enough you’ll be seeing them doing roadside checkpoints along the highways – Interstate highways first, then State highways and eventually local roads and streets.
We had the opportunity to stop this when it started, but there are too many sheep in this country. Had everyone stood up and said NO, this wouldn’t be happening now. All in the name of keeping us safe. Yeah, right.
acid would fit right into TSA.
Really , it is so sad to see the verbal assaults against TSA workers. I am a red blooded , patriotic woman who must get a good job because my husband suffered a stroke last year and it must be a good paying job. I will be starting classes in a few weeks for this position and I assure you, I would never laugh or belittle anyone I must pat down. The way I see it is it must be done by someone and it might as well be me , someone with integrity who will not assault inappropriately a female passenger.So please , don’t put all TSA officers in the same boat.
Julie, I am sorry you feel put on. But I was miss treated before 9/11 by a guard at the LA airport because I could not stand without hit side of screen because no woman was working that line to pat me down. He inform me twice that he would keep off my plane if I did not stop hit the side. I of course could not walk threw without a cane. I never felt safe with the airport employees after that. Then TSA became nightmare for rest of nation. Power is misused all the time. NOW, I will never fly again. I wont trust anyone who works in a airport. Sorry, if someone will do that to me in a wheelchair then I can only guess what they will do now that they can feel you up.
I used to fly the US for a living. Now I would not get on a plane for any reason. Fuck the TSA.
“TSA agents laugh at groping travelers have breasts, penis and butt crack fondled.”
And that was just parking your car!
If you’re a White male that will get to experience the TSA social conditioning before you fly, DO NOT make eye contact with any young BLAK Affirmative Action Hire males…if you want to avoid “special handling”…and humiliation.
Like many other wild beasts,the NAPA…especially ones in uniform with a badge..reactive instinctively in automatic unthinking animalistic perception of “Threat” whenever another species of hominid locks eyes with it.
It will attack in domineering bureaucratic fashion, because it can…generally without getting shot in it’s face or stuck in it’s neck…because of complacent acceptance of totalitarian misbehavior characterized by the employment of Wicked Witch ranks of servile stupid Flying Monkeys; until it’s not accepted anymore…
and The Flying Monkeys AND The Ruling Swine they work for are made to be ALL GONE.