Former TSA officer exposes the farce of airport security screenings
I feel much safer now, knowing that the pilot of my flight no longer has the means to hijack the plane. And I’m sure all Americans feel much safer knowing that in the name of national security, the TSA confiscated a homecoming bottle of champagne from a young Marine who lost both legs to an I.E.D.
In his article dated January 30 in Politico Magazine, Jason Edward Harrington, a former TSA officer who worked at Chicago O'Hare International Airport from 2007-2013, says:
By day, I spent eight hours at O’Hare in a federal uniform, solemnly carrying out orders passed down from [TSA] headquarters.
I hated it from the beginning. It was a job that had me patting down the crotches of children, the elderly and even infants as part of the post-9/11 airport security show. I confiscated jars of homemade apple butter on the pretense that they could pose threats to national security. I was even required to confiscate nail clippers from airline pilots—the implied logic being that pilots could use the nail clippers to hijack the very planes they were flying.
Once, in 2008, I had to confiscate a bottle of alcohol from a group of Marines coming home from Afghanistan. It was celebration champagne intended for one of the men in the group—a young, decorated soldier. He was in a wheelchair, both legs lost to an I.E.D., and it fell to me to tell this kid who would never walk again that his homecoming champagne had to be taken away in the name of national security.
I am sure that if and when the TSA responds to what Harrington said, they will write him off as a disgruntled ex-employee.
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