Homeland Security boss Janet Napolitano has hit a new low in her mismanagement of the important office to which she has unfortunately ascended.
As reported at the reference, Napolitano’s TSA saw fit to challenge the veracity of a 95-year old dying granny, including a humiliating examination down of her adult diaper:
WASHINGTON: A 95-year-old cancer-stricken woman was forced to undergo 45 minutes of intrusive pat-down at a US airport, triggering an outrage on the treatment meted out to her.
Lena Reppert was to say her final good-byes to her daughter before she made what would most likely be her last flight to her native Michigan.
But when Reppert made it to the check-in line at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport on June 18,Transportation Security Association (TSA) agents singled her out because she was in a wheelchair. Wheelchairs require other security measures to be employed since they don’t go through metal detectors.
“So they brought my mom to the side, and two agents just started patting her,” Jean Weber, her daughter was quoted as saying by FoxNews.com. “Eventually they found something that appeared to be hard they said could be a concealed weapon.”
She said two female agents wheeled her mom into a private room where they performed a more thorough inspection, and found that Reppert was wearing a Depend adult diaper.
After 45 minutes, the mother and daughter were given two options: either don’t fly, or lose the Depend. The women chose the latter.
Weber said she burst into tears during the ordeal. “I ran with her to the bathroom and stripped her down,” Weber recalled. “I got back to the line and just started bawling.”
This is not the first time that the TSA’s pat-downs of passengers have come under fire. Recently, outrage erupted over a video-recorded pat-down of a six-year-old passenger last April at New Orleans’ airport.
Indian Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar, who was clad in a sari, was pulled out from an airport security line and patted down by a TSA agent in Mississippi last year.”
While agents were busy protecting America from a diaper-clad 95-year old granny, a Nigerian man, presumably sans a diaper, was able to evade TSA as recounted in the story at reference 2:
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Nigerian man boarded a Virgin Atlantic airplane last week with an invalid boarding pass—making it through a federal security checkpoint where travelers must show identification and their boarding passes.
After the man, Olajide Olwaseun Noibi, got through security, the airline let him onto the plane even though his boarding pass was for a flight the day before, according to the FBI.
The identification check at airport security checkpoints was put in place as one of many new security measures after the 9/11 attacks. These federal document checkers have basic fraudulent identification training.
Mid-flight from New York to Los Angeles, a flight attendant noticed Noibi was sitting in a seat that was supposed to be vacant. Noibi showed the attendant the expired boarding pass that was in someone else’s name, and then showed him a University of Michigan identification card with his picture on it.
The boarding pass belonged to a man who said his boarding pass went missing from his pocket on his way to the airport June 23. Noibi boarded the plane with the expired pass the next day.
Noibi was arrested Wednesday when law enforcement officials saw him trying to board another flight and discovered he had more than 10 other expired boarding passes belonging to others in his bag.
Noibi has been charged with being a stowaway.”
Perhaps young, Nigerian males should be forced to wear diapers in order to enhance the TSA profiling process?
Reference 1: http://thelinkpaper.ca/?p=7970
Reference 2 :http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/nigerian-man-sneaks-plane-ny-invalid-boa
