ACLU has growing database of TSA patdown descriptions too graphic for public airwaves [View All]

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Gavin Garrison reported to Dupré on Thursday:

"A TSA agent explained what they were going to do, including feeling the bottom of my feet and continue to feel me all the way up to my pubic bone until they 'felt resistance.' By that time, everyone was watching. They were ravaging and touching every part of my body. I'm trying to tell you what they said and did best I can without offending you. (TSA targets Gulf filmmakers at check-point (video))"

The ACLU maintains an ever-growing database of these indignities are so graphic, "they're illegal to broadcast over public airwaves. Actions that violate FCC standards are embraced by the TSA."

"Mary in Texas" reported:

"The TSA agent used her hands to feel under and between my breasts. She then rammed her hand up into my crotch until it jammed into my pubic bone ... I was touched in the pubic region in between my labia ... She then moved her hand across my pubic region and down the inner part of my upper thigh to the floor. She repeated this procedure on the other side. I was shocked and broke into tears."

A woman named Chris said:

"In the four times she explored the area where my inner thigh met my crotch, she touched my labia each time, and one pass made contact with my clitoris, through two layers of clothing. I told her I felt humiliated, assaulted and abused ... In my work as a nurse, if I did what the TSA did against a patient's will it would be considered assault and battery, and I did not see how the TSA should have different rules."
Recipients of such treatment aren't allowed to show distress. Melissa from Massachusetts did anyway:
"I was shaking and crying the entire time. I was begging them to hurry up but they kept stopping and telling me to calm down. It is impossible to gain composure when a stranger has her hands in your underwear."

http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/tsa-x-rated-porno

ACLU reports that recurring themes in its reports include:

• The searches are extremely invasive
• Many travelers are reporting intense feelings of violation and humiliation
• Some report being physically hurt by the searches
• Some feel their searches are punitive
• Reports of gawking by agents
• Reports of seemingly unnecessary repeated touching of intimate areas
• Many vow not to fly any more
• Any traveler may be forced to undergo one of these searches