…one of the officers in our class asked him to tell us, off the record, what he really thought about the machines.
“They’re shit,” he said, shrugging. He said we wouldn’t be able to distinguish plastic explosives from body fat and that guns were practically invisible if they were turned sideways in a pocket.
Rumpus contributor Jason Edward Harrington has an exposé up at Politico in which he tells all about his time as a TSA employee working the security line at the Chicago O’Hare airport.
Are they really perving on female passengers and confiscating liquids for no reason? Yup—it’s every bit as bad as you thought, maybe even worse.
