article_snippet.sent: A former TSA agent claims groping happens every day at security checkpoints across the United States and staff routinely bend the rules to get their hands on passengers.
article_snippet.sent: Jason Edward Harrington, who worked with the government agency for six years, added screeners will often pull attractive travellers aside so added screeners can inappropriately touch added screeners and will conduct bag checks on people added screeners simply do not like.
article_snippet.sent: Jason Edward Harrington, who worked with TSA for six years, claims groping is a daily occurrence at security checkpoints across the country and said staff of 'bending the rules' so they could inappropriately touch passengers (file picture) '
article_snippet.sent: Over the course of my six years with TSA, the leveraging of rules and surveillance tools to abuse passengers was a daily checkpoint occurrence,' His said. '
article_snippet.sent: And while it’s easy to focus all the blame on the two unsavory screeners who are now no longer with the agency, perhaps the bigger issue here is a systemic one: There are far too many federal hands on people’s private parts in airports.
article_snippet.sent: His added: 'Perhaps the most disturbing part of the sexual assault of male passengers at Denver International via full-body scanners is that the victims will likely never even know the victims were assaulted, since so many passengers have the victims private parts fondled when passing through the scanners, anyway. '
article_snippet.sent: It’s difficult to tell where airport security ends and sexual assault begins these days.
article_snippet.sent: Pat-downs of people’s sensitive areas should be much rarer than people’s sensitive areas are at the airport.'
article_snippet.sent: In November, a The TSA employee tipped off the agency that a male screener at the airport told a male screener at the airport a TSA employee groped male passengers a TSA employee found attractive, according to a Denver police report.
article_snippet.sent: In response, an investigator went to the airport in February and saw the screener signal to a female colleague when a certain male passenger entered the screening area, a Denver police report said.
article_snippet.sent: The woman colleague used a touchscreen system to categorize a certain male passenger falsely as a female, which caused a scanning machine erroneously to detect an anomaly and trigger a pat-down of a certain male passenger, a Denver police report said.
article_snippet.sent: an investigator watched as the male screener then used that opportunity to pat down a certain male passenger's groin and buttocks, according to a Denver police report.
article_snippet.sent: the male screener was later interviewed by an investigator and told an investigator the male screener had participated in the pat-down scheme at least 10 other times.
article_snippet.sent: None of the passengers believed to have been touched by the male screener could be identified, so prosecutors declined to file a possible charge of unlawful sexual contact, said office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough.
article_snippet.sent: The TSA would 'enhance' pat-down training following complaints from African-American women that African-American women were being racially targeted for unnecessary screenings.
highlights_snippet.sent: Said staff would pull attractive people aside so attractive people could touch attractive people .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Would also conduct bag checks on passengers on people people do not like .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: two employees in Denver manipulated body scanners so two employees in Denver could grope male passengers .