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Ex-TSA agent confirms your worst fears about airport security

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'We laugh at naked bodies and take apple butter from old ladies': Ex-TSA agent confirms your worst fears about airport security
  • Former TSA agent Jason Harrington blasts the 'useless' X-ray scanners- but said that the agents enjoyed laughing at passengers' looks #
  • Told how TSA agents worried about radiation levels from the machines just like passengers but had to repeat the official government line
  • Confirmed that the security scanners regularly issued extra checks based on passengers' nationalities- and if they were rude to the TSA agents
  • Worked at Chicago's O'Hare Airport from 2007 until 2013 but then left and is now writing a book about his time as an agent
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 17:15 GMT, 31 January 2014 | UPDATED: 20:R05 GMT, 31 January 2014
A former TSA officer has confirmed many of the worst suspicions about airport security screeners: they stop passengers for having an attitude, they confiscate snow globes from children and nail clippers from pilots, they profile passengers based on their nationality.
And yes, they do see travelers naked in the X-ray photos.
In a confessional piece for Politico, former TSA agent-turned-writer Jason Harrington spills the secrets on the ways that the security workers pass the time during their long shifts.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2549647/We-laugh-naked-bodies-apple-butter-old-ladies-An-ex-TSA-agent-spills-secrets-security-line.html

-- Daily Mail 2014-01-31

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