TSA regrets 'discomfort,' but says elderly fliers weren't strip-searched
The Transportation Security Administration has apologized for the actions of some airport screeners, and that its officers did not follow standard procedures when they asked to see a colostomy device on one woman and put another woman's back brace through an X-ray machine. But the agency stands by its earlier statements that neither woman was strip searched or asked to remove any clothing.
This is the third time the TSA has altered its response to the allegations made by two elderly women passing through New York's JFK International Airport during the Thanksgiving holiday in 2011.
The complaints of Ruth Sherman and Lenore Zimmerman came within days of one another. Both claimed that after opting out of the walk-through metal detector, they were subjected to strip searches by two female TSA officers at the airport.
Sherman's son, Ralph, told CNN his mother has a permanent colostomy bag attached to the left of her navel which causes a bulge under her clothing. He was not present during the incident, but has been speaking on behalf of his mother.
full: http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/18/politics/tsa-elderly-strip-search/index.html
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