A couple of days ago I wrote about a conspiracy at the Denver airport of TSA screeners manipulating the equipment so that another TSA screener could grope the genital areas of handsome male passengers.  Now, a former TSA agent has taken to the pages of Time Magazine to confirm that this kind of sexual assault is commonplace at airports around the country. Over the course of my six years with the TSA, the leveraging of rules and surveillance tools to abuse passengers was a daily checkpoint occurrence. Has the TSA screener searching your luggage suddenly decided to share with you the finer points of official bag-search procedure just as your final boarding call is being announced? There’s a good chance that he or she just doesn’t like you. Or in some cases, as we’ve seen, it may be that the screener finds you attractive and wants to use the TSA rules as an excuse to get his or her hands on you. Amid all the jokes in comment sections, it’s easy to...(Read Full Post)