{"id":34617,"date":"2013-03-19T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34617"},"modified":"2013-03-19T09:05:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:05:12","slug":"wounded-marine-humiliated-by-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34617","title":{"rendered":"Wounded Marine humiliated by TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/blog\/inside-politics\/2013\/mar\/19\/tsa-agents-humiliated-wounded-marine-aggressive-in\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that Representative Duncan Hunter is inquiring into an incident at the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport last week when a Marine with prosthetic legs was the focus of Transportation Security agents&#8217; overly ambitious search;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rep. Duncan Hunter said in his letter Monday that the Marine, who is still on active duty and showed TSA agents his military identification, was still forced to undergo that scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA TSA office asked the Marine to stand and walk to an alternate area, despite the fact that he physically could not stand or walk on his own. With numerous TSA officers sitting and unwilling to assist, an officer then made him remove his legs, then put them back on, only to advance to a secondary screening location where he was asked again to stand, with extraordinary difficult, while his wheelchair was examined for explosives,\u201d Mr. Hunter said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, because those Marines are more likely than anyone to smuggle explosives onto planes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The congressman asked TSA to detail its procedures to inspecting wounded U.S. troops at airports, and to consider whether agents should show \u201csituational awareness.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, they&#8217;re complying with their main directive which is to give the impression that they&#8217;re doing their jobs, not that they&#8217;re necessarily having any impact on actual security.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that Representative Duncan Hunter is inquiring into an incident at the Phoenix &hellip; <a title=\"Wounded Marine humiliated by TSA\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34617\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wounded Marine humiliated by TSA<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tsa-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}