More TSA Theft: TSA Workers Like To Take Home Travelers' iPads
The TSA workers tell you, when you "opt out" of having your constitutional rights violated by scanner and instead have them violated by grope-down, that they "don't have personnel to watch your stuff." But, it seems they have plenty of personnel to swipe your stuff.
Christina Bonnington writes at Wired, "TSA Agents Like to Steal iPads":
It seems the TSA has a problem with sticky-fingered agents who like to swipe Apple products, particularly iPads. Case in point: An agent at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport is the latest to be charged with stealing travelers' iPads. It's but one example of iPad pilferage by some of our nation's "security" officials.TSA baggage screener Sean Henry reportedly was caught leaving the airport with two iPads after a joint TSA and Port Authority sting, according to ABC News. Officials used the iPad's own GPS tracking mechanism to keep tabs on the tablet and pinpoint the thief.
Other instances of note: In September, a TSA agent in Florida was caught pilfering an iPad left at a security checkpoint. In July, a Continental Airlines employee caught a TSA worker trying to take an iPad by stashing it in his pants. Not smooth, bro. He was alleged to have sold around $50,000 of stolen gear on Craigslist. And a TSA screener at Dallas-Fort Worth International was arrested in January and found with seven Apple tablets in his possession. One for each day of the week, perhaps?
So, $60-plus billion down the airport drain (and into Michael Chertoff's deep pockets), not a terrorist caught, and it's citizen travelers who are getting sold out -- beyond violating our right to not be searched with probable cause.
It is an utter, wild waste to treat every person going through an airport as a suspect. You find terrorists by having highly trained intelligence officers find perps long before they get to the airport -- or frankly, the mall, the synagogue, or countless easy targets.
From the article:
My question is how can violating the Fourth Amendment be ethical? And how is groping innocent people be non-horrible?
Jim P. at December 9, 2012 6:31 AM
Better yet...
... how does this relate to claims of some on here that TSA screens 100% of anything?
Dishonest people are not selectively dishonest to this degree.
Radwaste at December 9, 2012 3:37 PM
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