Two Transportation Security Administration screeners at Denver International airport have been fired after investigators found that a male TSA employee would select handsome men that he wanted to fondle as part of a secondary patdown. Before you give the TSA much credit however you may want to read on.
Accordingly to the reports, the unnamed male TSA screener told a female screen that he liked to grope the genitals of male passengers and that he would alert another screener that the man was a female to cause the scanning machine to indicate an anomaly in the genital area. He would then do a secondary screening and grope the passenger. This appears to have occurred roughly a dozen times.
In December 2013, Jamelyn Steenhoek filed a complaint against TSA screeners at the airport saying the frisking she received at the same Denver airport amounted to a sexual assault, particularly the fondling of her breasts. No charges were filed.
Now here is the rub, both literally and figuratively. The TSA was given an anonymous tip of an employee who was groping passengers for sexual pleasure on Nov. 18, 2014. The tip came from another TSA employee. Yet, it took nearly three months for TSA act. It just left this man in a position to sexually assault passengers.
It is also unclear why this is not a crime. There was no basis for fondling the genitals of these passengers but the TSA employee is not named let alone charged. Presumably, a man walking through the airport fondling people would have faced a bit more of a penalty than just being led out of the airport.
Source: CBS
Well, two comment ripped down…
Pogo
Are you suggesting that inappropriate behavior is acceptable? Or that LGBT would argue that somehow this is ok?
Boy you troll hard!
“Government May Now Tell You Why You’re On ‘No Fly’ List, But Not Always”
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/15/government-will-now-tell-youre-fly-list-except-wont/
And perverts can be found anywhere, private corporations and public employers.
Pervert. Glad he was finally stopped.
“Why is JT running stuff like this now????” asks “happypappies”
Because it’s crazy. And beyond that, it’s wrong.
Gay people are so oppressed I think they should be given passes on behavior like this.
Why is JT running stuff like this now???? Sensationalism.
Paul C. …TSA employees are not paid very much,and their turnover is large. Hard for them to restrict the candidate pool.
Bruce … When the DHS and TSA were formed, it was during a Republican Presidency…and possibly the silliest thing done under Bush 43. Create a new humongous bureaucracy to oversee other bureaucracies, you get what you sought…more crap. Think FEMA today versus their original role. I worked with the old FEMA and it wasn’t a hassle…today, they have formed new departments to run & do everything in emergency responses, with less effectiveness.
When the tsa was formed the Republicans wanted the airlines to have their own security and the dems wanted it to be the government, so guess who won and this is what we got. The tax payers pay their wages instead of the ticket buyer but The airline’s insurance company pays the fines.
And then there’s this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/us/anger-over-reports-of-dea-agents-parties-and-bewilderment-at-mild-penalties.html?mabReward=CTM
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers expressed outrage on Tuesday at the punishments imposed on Drug Enforcement Administration agents who were accused of participating in sex parties with prostitutes while stationed in Colombia.
Representative Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, said in a hearing that the panel had begun an investigation into a report by the Justice Department’s inspector general that detailed allegations of sexual misconduct and the misuse of government funds by 10 D.E.A. agents.
Seven of the agents admitted to participating in the sex parties, and those involved received suspensions of two to 10 days.
The report was released last month, but the committee disclosed new information showing that the misconduct had occurred as early as 2001. Mr. Cummings said the report portrayed “a D.E.A. agency as completely out of control.”
During the hearing, lawmakers asked Michele Leonhart, the D.E.A. administrator, why the offenses had not merited harsher penalties.
“When we have bad apples who repeatedly do the same type of behavior, compromise our national security, then they need to lose their national security clearances and they need to be fired,” said Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican and the committee’s chairman.
Ms. Leonhart told the committee that she did not have the power to fire agents or revoke their security clearances over what Mr. Cummings called “a truly breathtaking recklessness.”
“Honestly, what power do you have?” asked Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina. “You have to work with agents over whom you can’t discipline and have no control. What the hell do you get to do?”
The Justice Department reviewed allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment within its law enforcement branches — the D.E.A.; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and the Marshals Service — and found “some significant systemic issues” in all four.
The report described accusations from foreign police officers that D.E.A. agents had attended “loud” parties with prostitutes over several years, paid for by local drug cartels. The parties reportedly took place in locations leased by the government where agents’ laptops and other electronic devices were present. The foreign officers also said they had watched over the agents’ weapons and other property during the parties.
Three agents were also accused of receiving money, expensive gifts and weapons from drug cartel members, the report said.
On one occasion, an assistant regional director reportedly solicited prostitutes for a farewell party in his honor, an allegation he denied during an investigation by the agency’s Office of Professional Responsibility; he was not disciplined because of a lack of evidence, the investigation found. The party and the prostitutes were said to have been paid for using government money.
According to the report, local D.E.A. supervisors were aware of these parties because of letters of complaint that they received from building managers. They warned those involved to stop but did not report the allegations to the agency’s headquarters, judging them a local issue.
If you oppose their behavior, you’re homophobic.
400 TSA agents fired since 2003
Terrorists caught: ZERO
Clearly this is not working….
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To get a criminal case and process going, the victims need to come forward and file a criminal complaint.
Video cameras are all over the place, so this must be on video and archived as well.
Evidently working for TSA gets you a Get Out of Jail Free card. Who the hell are they hiring there?
Why isn’t this sexual assualt and why isn’t this man being prosecuted and if found guilty jailed for a very long time! The TSA seems to be a place for perverts.
See me. Feel me. Touch me.
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