TSA Administrator John Pistole Defends ‘Thorough’ Security Measures On CNN

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by Hillary Busis | 11:30 am, November 15th, 2010

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There’s been a lot of grumbling about the TSA’s new pat-down procedures lately—people say they’re far too intrusive, especially when it comes to “crotchal area” examinations. A man trying to board a flight at San Diego International Airport even filmed his encounter with the TSA, saying that their security screening felt like “a sexual assault.” It’s no surprise, then, that the TSA is now trying to defend itself against its detractors. This morning, TSA administrator John Pistole attempted to do just that when he stopped by CNN to discuss attitudes toward full-body scans and general security concerns with anchor John Roberts.

Pistole and Roberts’s talk was measured and brief. Unfortunately for the TSA, though, it probably won’t win over any angry passengers. In essence, Pistole just said that his organization is only trying to screen people as thoroughly as possible to ensure that “there’s not a group of boxcutters, or liquid explosives, or underwear bombs, or shoe bombs, or whatever” getting on board a plane. Though agents try “to be sensitive to individuals issues and concerns,” he added, “the bottom line is everybody who gets on that flight has been properly screened.”

Roberts and Pistole then briefly discussed John Tyner, the aforementioned man who filmed his screening in San Diego. Pistole was unapologetic about Tyner’s plight: “The bottom line is, if somebody doesn’t go through proper security screening, they’re not going to go on the flight,” he said again. The only potentially enlightening part of the interview came when Roberts asked Pistole why pilots are subjected to the same screening procedures as passengers, and Pistole replied by saying that the TSA does believe that since pilots are “a trusted group in so many ways,” it does make sense to have them go through a “different type of screening.”

Watch Pistole’s CNN appearance below, or read a summary of it (and the issues surrounding the TSA) on CNN.com.

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BatBoy

They need to rethink their procedures…like the cop said in the video where the guy did not want a groin search…”Why not let him go through the damn machine?”

He was a 43 year retired cop and knows how to get people through situations like this…but TSA is moving down a rocky road on this one.

To: TSA we want to be safe…but keep your damn hands off of crotch!
The Real Royal King

Everyone understands we only do this for show. This doesn’t enhance security an iota. The Israelis have an excellent, effective security protocol, far less intrusive than this. And, far more effective ….

I went through security at a Florida airport last week. Most inefficient process I have yet seen. The full body scanner was being used until it malfunctioned. Off come the belt, the shoes and not only the jacket, but also the sweater vest. Then, regular metal detectors. Ridiculous.
Harry Flashman

So…Janet Napolitano institutes draconian measures for the sake of airline security, then explains to all those whiny Americans that this is for your own good, mister, so just get over yourselves, and doesn’t care that people are greatly offended at having their nads groped by total strangers.

Now, if she would just apply that hard-nosed attitude toward securing our borders. But, hey, can’t do that now, can we?

We might offend someone.
sarainitaly

‘Show me on the doll where the TSA screener touched you’

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/15/show-me-on-the-doll-where-the-tsa-screener-touched-you/#ixzz15N2EulFM

Union Pilots and flight attendants and women wearing hijabs are above the rules?

The advisory comes after two of the nation’s largest pilots’ unions urged commercial pilots to avoid both full-body scanners and public pat-downs. Pilots have compared the new pat-downs to “sexual molestation.” A union for flight attendants has expressed similar concerns.

The enhanced pat-down involves a much more intrusive manual search of passengers’ bodies by TSA officers. Passengers who have undergone the new pat-down procedure have reported feeling humiliated by a search they describe as invasive and that has involved TSA officers touching the face and hair, the groin area and buttocks, and in between and underneath breasts.

Before you are patted down, you should remind the TSA officer that they are only supposed to pat down the area in question, in this scenario, your head and neck. They SHOULD NOT subject you to a full-body or partial-body pat-down.
* You may ask to be taken to a private room for the pat-down procedure.
* Instead of the pat-down, you can always request to pat down your own scarf, including head and neck area, and have the officers perform a chemical swipe of your hands.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cair-issues-travel-advisory-on-new-airport-pat-downs-107052408.html

They need to install these types of scanners, and give people back their dignity.

http://www.safe-view.com/advancedimaging/provision-at.htm

Flying is gross enough nowadays – we don’t need to be subjected to such an invasive measure.
sarainitaly

I think next time I fly, I am going to just wear this:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/airport security screeners show stick figures/ellyrockaway/airportsecurity.jpg?o=1

haha
sarainitaly

oops, broken link

http://tinyurl.com/29smhbk
paulmdoro

sarainitaly said:
oops, broken link

http://tinyurl.com/29smhbk

Oh that’s not nice. Thanks a lot for that image sara. Need to erase from brain immediately.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

Asked twice, Pistole never confirmed or denied the possible fine. As I explained in response to the previous post, I kind of doubt it and as I commented to another blog, if it were a possibility, I feel any judge would laugh it out of court, but all I can get from the above interview is that something may be written that would be determined by other factors and I assume there’s no straight-up fine.
Big Eddie

When Barney Frank flies , does he ask for a female screener ?
TeaPartyPatriot

Actually, the ONLY reason I fly is to get those happy-endings pat-downs. (I can’t afford those expense “masseuses” like Crazed S8X Poodle Gore can.) I hope the TSA starts doing them after you get off the plane in addition to before you board. Now that would make for a very relaxing trip.
Big Eddie

” All right , men . Michael Moore needs to be patted down . We’ll need four volunteers “.

Sorry .
sarainitaly

TeaPartyPatriot said:
Actually, the ONLY reason I fly is to get those happy-endings pat-downs. (I can’t afford those expense “masseuses” like Crazed S8X Poodle Gore can.) I hope the TSA starts doing them after you get off the plane in addition to before you board. Now that would make for a very relaxing trip.

LOL!
http://politicsofdestruction.com/ Bobomatic

This whole procedure is just absolute nonsense. All a terrorist has to do is shove c4 where the sun don’t shine… these body scanners do nothing to improve security and everything to diminish the rights of individuals.
Frankly My Dear

Properly screened, yeah like the underwear bomber and the packages from Yemen.
paulmdoro

Big Eddie said:
When Barney Frank flies , does he ask for a female screener ?

When you fly, do you ask for a young boy?
paulmdoro

TeaPartyPatriot said:
Actually, the ONLY reason I fly is to get those happy-endings pat-downs. (I can’t afford those expense “masseuses” like Crazed S8X Poodle Gore can.) I hope the TSA starts doing them after you get off the plane in addition to before you board. Now that would make for a very relaxing trip.

I think you’re on to something here. I have holiday flights fast approaching. Talk about alleviating stress.
Big Eddie

paulmdoro said:
When you fly, do you ask for a young boy?

Once more , you’ve embarassed yourself and the entire Doro clan . Freak .
paulmdoro

Big Eddie said:
When Barney Frank flies , does he ask for a female screener ?

And I’m the freak? Right.
Big Eddie

paulmdoro said:
And I’m the freak? Right.

Yes .
paulmdoro

Big Eddie said:
Yes .

If denial works for you, by all means, do your thing. There are other places more appropriate for discussing your fantasies though.
whit350

>Pistole and Roberts’s talk was measured and brief. Unfortunately for the TSA, though, it probably won’t win over any angry passengers. In essence, Pistole just said that his organization is only trying to screen people as thoroughly as possible to ensure that “there’s not a group of boxcutters, or liquid explosives, or underwear bombs, or shoe bombs, or whatever” getting on board a plane. Though agents try “to be sensitive to individuals issues and concerns,” he added, “the bottom line is everybody who gets on that flight has been properly screened.”<

Mr. Pistole would have a college degree so he can't easily plead ignorance so why the propaganda? Strategy is not the product of ignorance or even misunderstanding. The strategy could be just the threat of violence without the vilolence. It seem to work quite well empowering the TSA with unconstitutional power while preventing any effective program from being implemented. After all, it has been Muslim that are the root cause of all this screening.

If we listen to CAIR our screening will be incomplete and ineffective. If the shoe bomber or the Christmas bomber had succeeded would we know what happened. I happen to belive it was the Lord that saved those planes and revealed the perpetrators. Neither do I believe these two were the sole and only planners of that deed. After all, had they been successfull they would both be dead and what good would that be to them? I believe we have to look elsewhere to find motive.

If you are the planner but not the bomber does it matter how you deliver and explode the bomb. I am pretty resourceful and if I wanted to blow a plane out of the sky for political purposes I would not plan on being on that flight. I do believe that, given the resources available to the terrorists, I would be able to do it. I see nothing the TSA is doing that would prevent it, They are practicing ersatz security,

We are not dealing with flesh and blood in this matter but attitudes and agendas that rely on flesh and blood to carry out their wishes. This same spirit seems to be in control of the TSA and their hypocritical and ersatz politically correct sensitivity. It does not affect their unnecessary offensiveness toward the plain vanilla traveler while providing an ineffective security shield against violence.

EL AL has a proven method that is cheaper, much less of a hassle and far more effective. Why don't we follow their example. Racism? Perish the thought, that is only the excuse, not the reason. We are all profiled all the time and profile all the time. This is normal, natural and necessary. Pulling someone over just because he is black or Mexican or some such is not profiling but prejudice and is hardly on speaking terms with profiling. It is time to rehire common sense and fire the politically correct who have an agenda.
Nahu Tuk

What’s missing here is this:

MAY WE ALWAYS REMEMBER WHY IT IS THAT WE MUST BE CONTINUALLY AND INCREASINGLY INCONVENIENCED WHEN WE FLY, WHEN WE TRAVEL, AND WHEN WE JUST GO ABOUT TRYING TO LIVE OUR DAILY LIVES.

Yes, TSA is a joke on ice. Yes, the DHS is grossly inefficient. Yes, the surveillance cameras everywhere encroach on our freedoms. Yes, our taxes have to increase to pay for all these things when those dollars could be better spent elsewhere. Yes, and most importantly, we are losing our best and brightest Americans in an effort to give freedom to people who have no clue what to do with it.

BUT WE DIDN’T START THIS CRAP! THE MUSLIMS BROUGHT THE FIGHT TO US.
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whit350 said:
I happen to belive it was the Lord that saved those planes and revealed the perpetrators.

I happen to believe you are correct.
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Nahu Tuk said:
BUT WE DIDN’T START THIS CRAP! THE MUSLIMS BROUGHT THE FIGHT TO US.

I’ve tried to keep believing that not all Muslims are bad folks. It’s becoming more difficult as I note the vacuum of Muslim voices when it comes to standing up and loudly denouncing terrorism. It’s becoming more difficult as I note the so-called “good” Muslims aren’t a part of revealing or destroying the Muslim terrorists. I want to try and maintain my perspective and not think ALL Muslims are bad, but I need to see something more from those who want me to believe they’re not sympathetic to the jihadists causes.