A former flight attendant I know agreed with me when I shared with her my feelings about the new TSA passenger-screening procedures. She felt equally outraged. But she went further. She had an idea that would help matters, if not eliminate the intrusiveness and loss of privacy and dignity.
TSA training should include practicing theirfull-body scans and "pat-down" procedures on each other. Then after they've got a good dose of what it's like to have the interior of their underwear searched, the next step in their training should be to practice on TSA managment.
At the very least, she said, they would be more sensitive on the job with the real thing -- or things.
Or, I thought, they might find another -- more effective and less intimate -- way to screen for wanna-be terrorists
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