"Earlier this year, the LA Times reported: "TSA quietly launches new 'enhanced' pat-down procedure."
The Times noted that TSA would not describe precisely how the new procedure is different from the old one: "TSA officials declined to detail the new universal procedure or the previous pat-down tactics, but the industry is bracing for passenger unhappiness about more invasive searches."
...After going through a metal detector in the TSA-Pre security line, I was randomly selected to see if a machine would detect explosives on my hands.
My palms were swabbed and the machine detected explosives, even though I had not recently handled a gun, flammable liquids, or any sort of explosives...
...So what precisely does the "enhanced" pat-down seem to entail, you ask?
Well, since you asked,
- the agent runs his hand inside a passenger's waistband and also runs his hand up the back of each leg until he "meets resistance"
- and then does the same from the front of each leg.
- And then the TSA agent swipes the front of his hands 3 or 4 times right over the zipper area of one's Gap Outlet comfort-stretch khakis. That last part was the most unpleasant.
For what it's worth, this isn't the story of an agent who didn't know how to do a pat-down.
The agent described exactly what he was going to do before he did it and seemed to be simply carrying out the government's policy.
I'm sure he'd like a job that involves less groping..."
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