"Each day I had to look into the eyes of passengers in niqabs and thawbs undergoing full-body pat-downs, having been guilty of nothing besides holding passports from the wrong nations," he added.
He also confirmed that passengers from 12 nations – Syria, Algeria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Cuba, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and North Korea – were, until 2010, automatically given enhanced screening, meaning they were "pulled aside for full-body pat-downs and had their luggage examined with a fine-toothed comb". Mr Harrington – who is writing a book about his experiences, and who also writes a blog called Taking Sense Away – later alleged on Twitter that airport employees would "often drink those bottles of alcohol you surrender at the checkpoint". He was in a wheelchair, both legs lost to an I.E.D., and it fell to me to tell this kid who would never walk again that his homecoming champagne had to be taken away in the name of national security." It was celebration champagne intended for one of the men in the group-a young, decorated soldier. "Once, in 2008, I had to confiscate a bottle of alcohol from a group of Marines coming home from Afghanistan. I was even required to confiscate nail clippers from airline pilots - the implied logic being that pilots could use the nail clippers to hijack the very planes they were flying. I confiscated jars of homemade apple butter on the pretence that they could pose threats to national security. "It was a job that had me patting down the crotches of children, the elderly and even infants as part of the post-9/11 airport security show. "I hated it from the beginning," he said. He went on to explain that technological changes eventually made the images less revealing, and discusses how – in March 2012 – a blogger named Jonathan Corbett demonstrated in a YouTube video how the scanners could not detect metal objects, such as a gun.īy submitting your email you are agreeing to Nine Publishing'sĪnother issue Mr Harrington looks at was the confiscation of seemingly innocuous items from passengers, and intimate pat-downs.
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He also claimed that TSA officers had code words for passengers, including "Alfalfa", "Code Red" and "Fanny Pack" for attractive females passenger through security. All the old, crass stereotypes about race and genitalia size thrived on our secure government radio channels." room would occasionally identify a passenger as female, only to have the officers out on the checkpoint floor radio back that it was actually a man. Passengers were often caught off-guard by the X-Ray scan and so materialised on-screen in ridiculous, blurred poses-mouths agape, à la Edvard Munch. "Hernias appeared as bulging, blistery growths in the crotch area. Women who'd had mastectomies were easy to discern - their chests showed up on our screens as dull, pixellated regions."
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"Many of the images we gawked at were of overweight people, their every fold and dimple on full awful display. "The were good at detecting just about everything besides cleverly hidden explosives and guns," wrote Mr Harrington. In a candid confession for the website Politico, Jason Harrington, a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer from 2007 until 2013, also alleged that passengers were – until 2010 – profiled based on their nationality, and said that he and fellow staff accept that many measures are unnecessary and ineffective. Behaving badly: passengers getting worse, say airlines.Guns, swords, grenades: what Americans try to take on planes.
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