Your WTF is the TSA up to now post of the day

Duane is aghast, as anyone with a functioning brain would be

A Denver woman is claiming the TSA refused to let her board a flight in Wyoming because they didn’t have any female TSA agents to giver her a rub down, I mean a hands on pat down:

“They asked if I was on the flight to Denver, I said yes, they said that they couldn`t screen me because they sent all the female TSA agents home,” Winning said.

A female agent was necessary because of those new pat-downs.

“I said, `Would you be willing to let me sign a waiver and I would approve for a man to pat me down if necessary?` and they said no,” she said.

No way would they. As I have written before, these folks have very clear policies and procedures that dictate what they are to do, when and how. There is no waivering from those procedures and independent thought in new situations in frowned upon. If it isn’t covered, default to saying “No.”

I imagine there are a lot of you who are asking the same question Jennifer Winning asked:

“If you can’t clear it without a female, why would you send them home?”

The answer? I’m betting it’s this:

Airport screeners around the county have chosen the nation’s largest federal employee union to represent them in collective bargaining talks with the government, federal officials announced Thursday.