TSA Agent Arrested for Sexually Molesting South Korean Woman at NYC’s LaGuardia Airport

Guest Post by Michael Krieger 

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Last week, we learned how the naked body scanners, which the TSA spent $160 million in taxpayer money on, failed to find explosives or weapons in 96% of covert test cases. To make matters worse, government bureaucrats not only want to keep these useless devices in operation, they want passengers to also go through a metal detector after the naked body scan. Here’s an excerpt from the post, Big Brother Idiocy – TSA Spent $160 Million on Naked Body Scanners that Fail 96% of the Time:

The $160 million bill includes $120 million for the body scanners now in place in hundreds of airports nationwide, according to newly disclosed figures obtained by POLITICO. The rest of the money went to the agency’s “naked” X-ray scanners, which it pulled from airports two years ago amid worries about health risks and the devices’ detailed images of travelers’ bodies.

A recent security audit found that TSA had failed to find fake explosives and weapons in 96 percent of covert tests. And members of Congress familiar with the classified details say the body scanners are to blame for much of the problem.

Johnson said that while bomb detection is obviously a complex undertaking, “these things weren’t even catching metal.”

“If you really want to keep using those, and I’m not saying we shouldn’t, at a minimum we should put a metal detector on the other side,” the Wisconsin Republican said in an interview. “Why not go through two? You’ve just gotta use common sense.”

Just a few days later, we learn how a TSA employee allegedly lured a 22-year-old female South Korean passenger into a LaGuardia restroom where he proceeded to sexually molest her under the name of “national security.” From ABC News:

A TSA screener is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at LaGuardia Airport in New York City after telling her she needed to be searched in the bathroom.

Maxie Oquendo allegedly sexually assaulted a 21-year-old student from South Korea after her Salt Lake City flight landed Tuesday afternoon.

Court documents show the suspect allegedly said, “Hey, ma’am, I need to scan your body and your luggage.”

She responded by saying, “You can’t scan me, but you can have a woman scan me, because I am a girl.”

The victim asked the 40-year-old TSA screener if he checked all passengers, and Oquendo allegedly said yes.

He then allegedly lifted up her shirt, unzipped her pants and fondled her.

Saying afterwards, “She’s clear. She doesn’t have any weapons or knives.”

And in what is perhaps just as offensive…

If convicted, Oquendo faces up to one year in jail.

Am I the only one who remembers that a man was recently sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for having consensual sex on the beach with his girlfriend? Recall: Florida Man Sentenced to 2.5 Years in Jail for Having Sex on the Beach.

In what kind of backwards, uncivilized society does a government official who sexually molests a traveler face less jail time than a man having consensual sex on the beach? In America, that’s where.

Of course, the TSA has a sordid history of employees targeting passengers for deviant sexual abuse. Recall:

TSA Agents Caught Gaming System so Male Screener Could Grope Attractive Passengers; No Criminal Charges Filed

TSA Air Marshal Arrested for Taking Photos Up Passengers’ Skirts

Because if not, the terrorists win.

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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Stucky

Leave the TSA alone. Getting sexually molested is one of the few pleasures that I can still look forward too.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

I was in a gay bar once, don’t ask, where they had a little theater for the patrons. There were several titillating skits, one was about a cop who pulls over a hapless fag. He pats him down and then proceeds to violate his civil rights right up against the car. That was pure fantasy back then. Today it is a commonplace occurrence.

We are trapped in that theater of the absurd.

Guy
Guy

It’s a sad state of affairs when the fact that this happened does not surprise me, but the fact that a TSA agent might actually be punished does.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

The TSA is just another facade of the fake “war on terror” brought to us by the Neo-Con Republicans most of the readers here at TBP helped to usher in. So stop your bitching.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I just gave my first thumbs up ever to Westcoaster. I’m going outside to see if there’s any unicorns walking by.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Stranger things can happen Iska, I recall a cartoon of a man waking from a bender and finding another man’s shoes next to his.

gilberts
gilberts

For what it’s worth, I used to work in a nuclear power plant as an armed security officer. After working there, seeing the government’s awesome job of securing the airports makes me laugh every time.
20 years ago, bomb sniffing portals were established, reliable technology. You stepped into a portal, let it sniff the air around you for 10 seconds, and if it detected suspect chemicals, it went off. Coupled with the classic metal detector portal and bag scan, we had a reliable security system. We had the hand-held wands for the occasional guy who tripped up the metal detector. In searching people, we didn’t need to fondle you or grab your junk, so privacy and decency were maintained. Working there, I learned some of the tricks of the machines. The Army taught me a couple things, too.

First, metal detector portals aren’t perfect, but the average person will never have the opportunity to figure out their shortcomings. Some of my coworkers figured out how to precisely drag their feet to walk through the machine without it alerting on the steel shanks in their boots. I saw it, but I never figured out the trick.

We routinely had them set so sensitive they could pick up a single stick of Wrigley’s gum. The tinfoil on the gum was sufficient to alarm the machine. So that’s funny, considering I’ve walked through airport metal detectors with lighters, pocket knives, and cigar cutters in my pockets at the same time. Based on that, I assume the airports aren’t really trying. I’m sure they don’t want their machines too sensitive, since they would have to slow the line down and actually search people. And you’ve probably heard about how the TSA ran their security checkpoint with the metal detector portal off for 3 hours and never noticed.

I just got back from Europe and the security in Germany and England was very different. First, the Brits are obsessive about the liquids and toiletries. The Brits have numerous stations with bags and reminders you need to get your toiletries and liquids in a bag they can inspect. Considering they hardly look at the bag once you get it to the checkpoint, it hardly seems necessary. The Brits have the nude scanners, too, but they don’t make everyone go through them.

The Brits don’t require you to take off your shoes. Neither do the Germans. That was refreshing. The Brits have one thing on us-their checkpoints seemed to be largely manned by attractive women. Not a big hippo in the bunch. I wondered if they were government workers or private security.

The Germans seemed about the same as the Brits, however when I walked to the bag scan, there were probably about 7-8 people all standing around in a gaggle. The bag scan operator was eating a tupperware container of fruit and didn’t seem to be paying much attention to the bags. The other security people were just hanging out, chatting, ignoring we travelers.

British customs reminded me of that movie, Children of Men. It was one of the most tedious, painfully long, boring, awful experiences of my life. I stood there in this long zig-zagging line for nearly 2 hours. The Brits make their customs checkpoint so miserable, you pretty much never want to enter Britain again. The Customs officer I dealt with had a ton of questions, too. I wasn’t staying in England-BritAir’s awful scheduling forced me to enter the country, get my bags, then turn around and leave the country again. Even with a ticket and itinerary in hand, the Customs guy insisted on a long, painful questioning process.

Speaking of explosives, the TSA uses occasional spot checks with swabs to try and detect explosives. It seems silly to me, since you can test everyone passing through with an explosives portal, as mentioned above. In Iraq, we relied on something called X-spray to just spray hands and see if they changed color. The only problem with this system is the same compounds that are used in explosives are common in daily life. If you were handling fertilizer, you could pop positive on the test. If you were coloring your hair with henna, you could pop positive. One time, I popped positive after visiting White Sands Missile Base.

One thing I didn’t see this time was the TSA beagles. Five years ago, I left Poland with some homemade kielbasa, which I ate on the plane, and I was intercepted in the US by the dog patrol to see what food I was carrying. I got the feeling Customs just doesn’t care much about incoming travelers.

Also, Customs has dumped the little blue re-entry cards. Now US citizens just scan their passports, answer several NO questions, and take an awful selfie which gets printed up on a strip of toilet paper, which you just turn in to the Customs people. I don’t know why they need it, since they’ve already got it in their computer, but I guess the formality must be observed.

Finally, Never, EVER go through Dulles if you can avoid it. Their security is so bad, it took over an hour for us to clear the line. The idiots running it seem to purposely stretch it out as long as possible. The lines just stretch and stretch back and forth and they have these TSA goons and blazer-wearing twits who seem to make the lines as inconvenient as possible. They were messing around with the rope barriers to let some people slip into line, reversing the flow, stopping the flow for no obvious reason, and just made it life on earth. I think they get points for making small children cry and shriek.

Maddie's Mom
Maddie's Mom

You won’t find me in an airport, but for the ladies who must, granny panties!!! And matching bra, of course. ? lol

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

That won’t work, however, you might try some purple dye or red dye in a crotch area. I might possibly cool the pervs’ amorous fondling. Or glue some hair all over the butt region so it looks like an Arab chick or a dyke, that might cool their jets.

Gayle
Gayle

My personal fav is finding that my checked bag has been pawed through somewhere along the line. A friendly sticker informs me that random bag checks are done for our safety. Now you can all sleep better tonight, knowing that this vigilance is being carried out.

I always refuse to go through the body scanner because I think it is a violation of my rights and because it causes more work for the TSA to have to stop and pat me down. My adult children just roll their eyes and I don’t doubt there are some interesting conversations about my impending dementia.

gilberts
gilberts

I always opt for hand search, too. I don’t need to be irradiated so they can see my junk. Did anyone see this article? http://www.zdnet.com/article/body-scanner-saved-35000-naked-images/ http://gizmodo.com/5690749/these-are-the-first-100-leaked-body-scans
Note the scanner doesn’t restrict its beam to the person being scanned, but also shoots down the hallway behind it. Want to be the TSA folks start coming down with cancer soon?

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