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Woman told by screener her genitals would be groped

A woman who was the victim of a brutal rape underwent a “horrific” experience at the hands of TSA agents this past weekend at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport which ended up with her checking into a psychiatric ward.

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Brennan Dunn, the woman’s husband, posted an account of his wife’s experience on the Flyer Talk website.

Dunn’s wife had been subjected to a violent sexual assault and death threats at the hands of three men in Florida five years previously, an experience that led to her committing self-harm and being forced to take medication and attend therapy sessions.

Courthouses Now Have Nude Imaging Machines

The wife had jury duty at the Douglas County courthouse in Castle Rock, Colorado yesterday. She found they, too, now have the backscatter nude imaging machines, and they are mandatory.So, to excercise our constitutional rights to the courts or to appear as mandated by the court we must submit to a strip search and radiation.

According to the TSA web site, these machines are also in other courthouses throughout the country.Just thought you should know.

NPR: Website Publishes 100 Pictures Of Federal Security Body Scans

A screenshot of one of the images obtained by Gizmodo. The website Gizmodo has published 100 pictures of body scans taken at an Orlando Federal Courthouse. The scans are not from the “naked scan” machines that the Department of Homeland Security announced were going into 28 airports in the country, earlier this year.

Instead, they are much more pixelated and less embarrassing.Still Gizmodo points to TSA‘s Advanced Imaging Technology’s privacy policy, which states that the machines “cannot store, print, transmit or save the” images and that they are “automatically deleted from the system after it is cleared by the remotely located security officer.”Gizmodo attained the images by filing a Freedom of Information Act request.

The images were among the 35,000 that U.S. Marshals at the Orlando courthouse admitted to saving.Gizmodo, which blurred the faces in the photographs, explains their reasoning for publishing them: The leaking of these photographs demonstrates the security limitations of not just this particular machine, but millimeter wave and x-ray backscatter body scanners operated by federal employees in our courthouses and by TSA officers in airports across the country. That we can see these images today almost guarantees that others will be seeing similar images in the future. If you’re lucky, it might even be a picture of you or your family. A poll released by CBS, yesterday, asked Americans if airports should use full-body x-rays. A whopping 81 percent of them said yes and it didn’t matter their gender, age or political persuasion.Earlier, today, Nate Silver of the New York Times’ Five Thirty Eight analyzed how accurate those polls might be, considering that a wide range of them were conducted after terror threats and that most of them polled Americans who had never been through the machines. He found the numbers are pretty accurate: My guess is that a majority of such passengers will still approve of them:

Americans are willing to tolerate a great number of things at the airport that they would never stand for in other parts of their lives.

How about you? Where do you stand on the debate after seeing the published pictures?

TSA Ejects Man, Threatens Lawsuit For Refusing “Groin Check”

[These events took place roughly between 5:30 and 6:30 AM, November 13th in Terminal 2 of the San Diego International Airport. I'm writing this approximately 2 1/2 hours after the events transpired, and they are correct to the best of my recollection. I will admit to being particularly fuzzy on the exact order of events when dealing with the agents after getting my ticket refunded; however, all of the events described did occur.I had my phone recording audio and video of much of these events. It can be viewed below.Please spread this story as far and wide as possible. I will make no claims to copyright or otherwise.]xrayspecs.jpgThis morning, I tried to fly out of San Diego International Airport but was refused by the TSA. I had been somewhat prepared for this eventuality. I have been reading about the millimeter wave and backscatter x-ray machines and the possible harm to health as well as the vivid pictures they create of people’s naked bodies. Not wanting to go through them, I had done my research on the TSA’s website prior to traveling to see if SAN had them. From all indications, they did not. When I arrived at the security line, I found that the TSA’s website was out of date. SAN does in fact utilize backscatter x-ray machines.I made my way through the line toward the first line of “defense”: the TSA ID checker. This agent looked over my boarding pass, looked over my ID, looked at me and then back at my ID. After that, he waved me through. SAN is still operating metal detectors, so I walked over to one of the lines for them. After removing my shoes and making my way toward the metal detector, the person in front of me in line was pulled out to go through the backscatter machine. After asking what it was and being told, he opted out. This left the machine free, and before I could go through the metal detector, I was pulled out of line to go through the backscatter machine. When asked, I half-chuckled and said, “I don’t think so.” At this point, I was informed that I would be subject to a pat down, and I waited for another agent…