Comment Re:"checkpoint smurf?" (Score 1) 699
The letter from the TSA agent's lawyer says she followed proper procedure. I doubt that includes inserting a gloved hand into the passenger's vagina 4 times. I think her claims are very much in dispute.
Not only that, but the actual blog post makes clear that she was upset about the "often crumpled Constitution and Bill of Rights", that people "shouldn't give the TSA an easy time of violating your rights", and that she (PRIOR TO THE SEARCH) "felt it was important to make a spectacle." She then encourages everyone else to do the same, post names of TSA agents, and says that TSA agents are like guards at Nuremberg (she probably means Auchwitz or similar).
Honestly, between some random TSA agent doing a routine search and someone who freely writes that they came to cause a spectacle and shame the agents for a policy they don't like? I find the TSA agent to be the more credible one here. Amy Alkon set out to try to drum up attention for herself. She didn't react to the search...she planned the reaction before the search. She sounds like a nut to me.