TSA Chief: Resisting Scanners Just Means Delays

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Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief John Pistole is calling on holiday travelers not to participate in National Opt-Out Day, a protest against the full-body scanners that have raised privacy concerns because they produce detailed images of airline passengers’ naked bodies. The organizers of the protest are calling on airline passengers to opt out of being scanned on Wednesday and instead submit to a more time consuming pat down search, in the hopes that forcing TSA agents to conduct a large number of pat downs will create significant delays. Pistole has acknowledged that the protest has the potential to snarl airline travel on what is the busiest travel day of the year, which in turn would only hurt those “who want to go home and see their loved ones.” So far there is little if any indication that passengers are protesting against the scanners by choosing to be patted down by TSA agents. However, Paul Ruden a spokesman for the American Society of Travel Agents, said just one or two airline passengers protesting the scanners would be enough to cause “huge” delays.

By :  Armour National Security Group, LLC