TSA Announces More Intrusive, Stricter Checkpoints at Airport

The Transportation Security Administration needs to be more invasive with their security screenings!

Most Americans who’ve used an airport in the past 15 years or so would shudder at even the idea. But the TSA does actually believe that.

The TSA will now be conducting more “comprehensive” physical screening on those who have been selected for pat-downs, Bloomberg reports.

These pat-downs are expected to be so uncomfortable that the TSA has decided to inform local police that they may be receiving complaints about it, according to Bloomberg.

If even the overpaid, unionized government employees who “guard” our nation’s airports expect it to be that bad, it can’t be good.

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This tightening of searches comes after the abject failure of the TSA to prevent banned items from getting through their security checkpoints, which was proven in 2015 when teams working with the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General were able to smuggle items past security with an astonishing 95.7 percent success rate, according to CNN.

TSA spokesman Bruce Anderson said on Friday that he “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,” according to Bloomberg. (“Involved” must be TSA-speak for up close and really personal.)

Look, we travelers get it. It’s really, really hard to keep airports safe from every potential terrorist threat.

It’s hard to empathize, but it’s a real challenge to keep airlines safe and simultaneously lessen the stress people experience during travel. It’s hard.

But seriously — how can the TSA be making things more uncomfortable?

H/T TheBlaze

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