The New York Daily News is reporting that the TSA seems to have developed a pattern of selecting attractive women for repeated screenings at airport checkpoints and having a special interest in doing hands on body searches of elderly women. Even Chuck Schumer is planning to address the issue.
"A passenger at Dallas Fort Worth claims she was asked to walk through a body scanner three times for the simple purpose of letting screeners in another room get multiple views of her image," Schumer said, according to CBS 11. "At one point the passenger was asked if she plays tennis because of her 'cute' figure, " he said.[New York Daily News]
In related news U.S. airlines posted the lowest number of flights in 2011 of any year in 10 years.
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