I wonder if the airline charged her a fee to make new connections?

omg, this happened to me -- although I did end up (barely) making my flight! I was flying from San Diego to LA, and they didn't have a female TSA agent in the commuter terminal. We arrived about 45 minutes early (which should be more than enough time at the commuter terminal). There were only THREE people ahead of us in security. And yet, there I sat(with two other women), for more than half an hour, waiting for a female agent.

I started getting nervous as the first boarding group for my flight (I could see my gate from where I was) began to board. I got my screening and boarded in the nick of time.

You'd *think* that, you know, they might have anticipated that women would be flying that day...and had a female agent at the ready.

Well, think further.

What about the situation made you worthy of suspicion?

Nothing.

It was necessary to teach you to be obedient.

Not to worry. Our diligent Attorney General Eric Holder will immediately launch an investigation into the sex discrimination practiced by the TSA.

I would be filing a lawsuit about now. Holy Hell.

Odd that for a goon agency so concerned about safety that they let some of their sturmtruppen go off duty before a plane takes off.

Thank you, Radwaste, i believe that covers it.

I'm still subscribed to the [The TSA Blog] New comment on TSA Top 10 Good Catches of 2011

One of the newest comments just last night/today was:

Everybody who is complaining on here and advocating the dissolution of TSA (and I dislike it as much as anybody, flying 2-3 times per week), I assume that you would be OK with the occasional plane going down. If you can honestly say that, then you are at least consistent in your thoughts. Perfection is expensive, and unfortunately, the American people in general are not accepting of anything less than perfection. That last 1-2% is very expensive, but that's what we routinely demand. That's where Six Sigma came from.
This system was modeled in 2001 after the Israeli airport security system, so you probably should blame them while you're at it.

My immediate reply was:

Every single terrorist since Flight 93 (crashed on 9/11) has been taken down by the passengers.

There will never be another 9/11 from the simple fact -- the model has changed. The passengers prior to 9/11 had all been told to sit down, wait to land and let the negotiators deal with it.

On 9/11 the passengers of Flight 93 found out they were about to be used as Not-So-Smart Missiles. They took appropriate action. 9/11 was a one off event. The TSA was not needed.

I am glad it did not happened to me, I am sure I would have snapped.

I hope she can sue the TSA for that.

I know how awfully naive Ron Paul seems on foreign policy, but does anybody think more grounded people like Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich or the Ken Doll will actually get rid of this crap?

(If one of them has promised to do so, I haven't heard about it, but I will be pleasantly surprised.)

More people need to learn how to say "I demand to have a lawyer."