Apr 23, 2011

Failure to Screen the Screener

Airport passenger screener charged in distributing child pornography

A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show.

Federal agents also allege that Transportation Safety Administration Officer Thomas Gordon Jr. of Philadelphia, who routinely searched airline passengers, uploaded explicit pictures of young girls to an Internet site on which he also posted a photograph of himself in his TSA uniform.

Homeland Security agents arrested the TSA officer March 24, and he is being held without bail.

Now, it doesn't seem that he took pictures from the Radiation King and posted that -- but his job was to feel people up and violate their 4th Amendment rights.

May I make a suggestion that the TSA screen their screeners before they screen me?

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