Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents are now authorized to effectively play with passengers genitals as part of new pat-down procedures. US airport security procedures are being overhauled to allow TSA agents to pat-down everybody passing through security – and the new pat-down instructions issued to agents include more intimate “comprehensive” techniques. Sputniknews.com reports: “I would say people who in the past would have gotten a pat-down that wasn’t involved will notice that the [new] pat-down is more involved,” TSA spokesman Bruce Anderson said March 3, Bloomberg reports. It will involve more “intimate contact,” TSA has acknowledged, though National Spokesman for TSA Michael England told Gizmodo, “The new protocol does not mandate the touching of passengers genitals.” However, at least one passenger, writer Joel Stratte-McClure, called his experience with the new procedures at California’s small Redding Airport, “increased scrutiny of the groin area.” “The TSA consolidated previous pat-down procedures into one standardize procedure at airport security checkpoints and at other locations within the airport. This standardized procedure continues to utilize enhanced security measures implemented several months ago, and does not involve any different areas of the body than were screened in the previous standard pat-down procedure,” England told Gizmodo in a statement about the change. The previous pat-down selection, in which individual agents could exercise choice based on risk-assessment, will be phased out over [...]
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