You know those outraged, desperate first-person reports of travellers being inappropriately groped by the TSA at American airports? The TSA's official blogger, Blogger Bob, says they don't exist: "there is no fondling, squeezing, groping, or any sort of sexual assault taking place at airports. You have a professional workforce carrying out procedures they were trained to perform to keep aviation security safe." (Thanks, Ross!)
TSA: checkpoint groping doesn't exist
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