#patdowns

POV: I'm that twordish i giggle my ass off at security pat downs 😶😶😐

Dear Fellow Taxpayers,

Is the TSA out of control?

Now how can I be so sure that the TSA knew that the scanners were broken? Well, in the first video I referred to other countries who take aviation security more seriously than we do had rejected the scanners years ago. Over the last year, we’ve also seen almost the entirety of Europe has backtracked on the body scanners. And there have been dozens of research studies that have shown vulnerabilities in the technology, of which the TSA must surely be aware. But most importantly, I know because TSA employees have told me so. In the last year and a half since I filed my lawsuit against the scanners and the groping, I’ve received hundreds of e-mails and thousands of comments on my blog, and some from actual TSA employees who have seen the scanners fail first-hand. One of them was nice enough to sit down for an interview with me last week. “Jennifer” has been working with the Transportation Security Administration for the last 4 years as a screener, and had this to tell me: [Video Interview Segment] Jon: Were there specific times where this machine didn’t work, for either someone testing it, or a passenger went through and it was determined that they went through with… Jennifer: Absolutely. Yes, absolutely. Jon: Metal objects? Jennifer: Metal, non-metal. Jon: Big, small? Jennifer: Both. Jon: Things like wallets I think you mentioned to me? Jennifer: Wallets. Jon: So you’d send someone through the scanner and you’d see a bulge in their pocket, but the scanner would show nothing? Jennifer: Mmhmm. Jon: Things during training? Jennifer: Absolutely. Jon: What would you test it with when you were testing the machines? Jennifer: There were different props: guns, knives, bags of powder that were supposed to resemble explosive material. Jon: Sometimes these would just go through completely undetected? Jennifer: Absolutely.