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Here’s a round-up of some news I found today on the TSA’s peekaboo-or-grope regime. One doctor says that the risk of radiation from the new scanners is not significant. Yet as Jane Orient, MD point out, there’s a certain irony: “if you had a deadly disease, and the scanner were an FDA-regulated device that might save your life, your doctor wouldn’t be allowed to use it, […]

Welcome to another edition of The Daily Grope, a collection of items about security theater that have come my way. First, Canada has problems with airport security, too. This story deals with whether women who wear an Islamic veil should be asked to show their faces to security personnel. Gene Healy says we’ve been bitten by hysteria; “when every bungled attack — no matter how inept […]

One man writes, “TSA is trying to use its police powers to make examples out of anyone who has the temerity to protest the body scanners.” What does TSA stand for? One possibility is totally subjugating Americans. Is the White House hoping that disgust with the get-naked-or-grope regime will prop up demand for more rail projects? A San Diego man (no, not the one you’ve heard about) strips […]

Here’s your daily grope of news about the TSA. First up, TSA agents puncture a cancer survivors’s urostomy bag, soiling him in urine, during a TSA screening. He later told the press, “every time I tried to tell them about my medical condition, they said they didn’t need to know about that.” Next up, some videos. First, a compilation of ham-handed security theater, called “The TSA […]

It’s a slow day at The daily Grope, but here’s what I’ve come across lately. One TSA screener, seeing a young woman coming through the security area, says to another: “heads up, got a cutie for you.” A woman Missouri speaks of her recent experience with the TSa: “Under any other circumstance, if a person touched me like that without my permission, it would be considered criminal […]