Ex-Agent Confirms Worst Suspicions About TSA: “We Laugh At Naked Bodies And Take Snow Globes From Children, Apple Butter From Old Ladies”

TSA Official Inspects Cannon Balls

From the Daily Mail:

A former TSA officer has confirmed many of the worst suspicions about airport security screeners: they stop passengers for having an attitude, they confiscate snow globes from children and nail clippers from pilots, they profile passengers based on their nationality. 

And yes, they do see travelers naked in the X-ray photos. I 

n a confessional piece for Politico, former TSA agent-turned-writer Jason Harrington spills the secrets on the ways that the security workers pass the time during their long shifts. 

‘I confiscated jars of homemade apple butter on the pretense that they could pose threats to national security. I was even required to confiscate nail clippers from airline pilots—the implied logic being that pilots could use the nail clippers to hijack the very planes they were flying,’ he wrote.