Female senator tweets about 'very uncomfortable' screening by TSA

[cali]

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) complained Monday she was subject to a very uncomfortable screening by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

McCaskill tweeted about the experience before boarding a flight on Monday.

The senator, who has complained about the TSA's security techniques in the past, tweeted that she was selected for a pat down and that the experience was not a pleasant one.

"‪Today in my airport screening, test on my hands was positive," McCaskill wrote to her 89,100 followers. "Got private, more aggressive pat down. OMG. #veryuncomfortable‬."

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/tsa/287369-mccaskill-complains-about-aggressive-tsa-screening#ixzz2NGXTEq3Y

[indepat]

1. My Dear Senator, big brother is just trying to keep you safe, not embarrass or

make you uncomfortable, albeit through a process which necessarily assaults and bruises your person, your liberty, and your dignity. Remember, the price of freedom has not come easily.

[Scuba]

2. Didn't you feel safer Claire? No? Hmmmmm, very suspicious.

[snooper2]

3. There is a reason the TSA is a mockery

[Demo_Chris]

11. Hillarious!

[HereSince1628]

4. Dear Sen McCaskill...Wash hands before going to airport.

especially after fertilizing plants or fueling a diesel auto.

[lovuian]

5. It is pretty ridiculous

so did she have to go through screening and then get patted down?

[BainsBane]

9. This is the quote

"I try to avoid a pat-down at all costs," McCaskill told TSA Administrator John Pistole during a Senate hearing that year. "There are many times women put their hands on me in a way that if it was your daughter or your sister or your wife, you would be upset."

Doesn't bother me, but many others seem to find it troubling.

[Hekate]

6. I was "selected" once

Probably because I had a one-way ticket, thanks to emergency flights regarding my mother's health. I was a bit overwrought by the time they finished -- well, actually long before they finished -- The idiot woman agent kept asking why I was in tears and this being the Bush administration I was afraid to even start because they were tears of rage more than humiliation.

TSA is a @#$%& joke.

[BainsBane]

7. If you're caught in the rain on the way to the airport

You will get frisked. The machines read water as something nefarious.
The searches don't bother me. You are frisked by someone of the same sex. I guess people react differently.

[Apophis]

8. Good.

Now she has the power to change that.

But she won't.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

19. You're right. She is a U.S. Senator who could demand change and hold up Bills with filibusters until

changes were made or promised.

Her chances of doing that are next to nothing.

[siligut]

10. I am busty

I used to joke with traveling companions that I will always be taken aside for extra screening, but it wasn't a joke, it was true.

I would refuse the scan and get the pat down. So at least only one person, a female, got some amusement out of me.

[backscatter712]

12. The irony is that the TSA just voted to allow people to bring pocketknives on airplanes again.

but we still have to pour out our drinks, go through the pornoscanners, and get the grope-downs like Sen. McCaskill did.

All to prevent a form of crime that's less likely to happen to you than getting struck by a bolt of lightning.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. She's a Senator. They shouldve known there's no way she'd have a bag of weed on her.

Oh, sorry, I meant might be a spooky terrorist doing spooky terror stuff.

Only a crazy person would think that the TSA is 80% Security Theater and 20% trying to catch the people who bring weed on the airplane.

[Demobrat]

14. I guess I'm the exception but

I don't mind the scanner, or even the pat-down (got selected once, no big deal). Maybe because I can't imagine anything less titillating than looking at average American bodies all day, I don't tend to think the average agent spends all day getting sexual thrills out of his or her job. I sure wouldn't want the gig.

[Ilsa]

16. But there are people who do enjoy it.

They spend money on peeping devices to check out average women (and probably men, too). I think the control gets them off. I have no doubt that some of them apply for these jobs and their perversions cannot be screened out. Yeah, most of them probably don't get a sexual thrill out this job. But we don't know which ones do, do we, until they've let their hands linger a moment too long, making us feel like we're being molested.

I've been patted down. My little children have been patted down, but only with me present and watching for shenanigans.

[Lobo27]

15. Could this have been a hit type of thing.

Some one out there trying to make her look bad. Out for her seat etc...
Perhaps just an over zealous tsa person. Maybe I'm looking to much into it, but at this point in time I don't put anything past repubs.

[Cleita]

17. She is also a rather outspoken Democrat going on those liberal radio and TV

talk shows to chat about policy and issues. I wonder if Republican Congressional members get the same scrutiny?

[grandpamike1]

18. The TSA

is just an inferior baggage inspector than the one's that check your carts at Costco, only Costco pays them more.