Underwear Bombers Show Limits of TSA’s Groping
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May 22 (Bloomberg) -- A few weeks ago, agents of theTransportation Security Administration assigned toWashington’s Reagan National Airport stopped my mother-in-law, a very nice and unthreatening 79-year-old who was inWashington to lobby on behalf of public libraries, andasked her an enormously rude question.
She had just passed through one of the TSA’s advancedimaging machines when an agent asked, rather too loudly:“Are you wearing a sanitary napkin?”