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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Family misses flight after TSA screeners target
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Wed Apr 25 17:46:32 2012
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:36:14 -0700
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Family misses flight after TSA screeners target disabled 7-year-old
Four months after the Transportation Security Administration launched
a program to help airline passengers with disabilities, a New York
family found out just how little "TSA Cares." Traveling from New
York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Florida, the Frank
family was yanked out of line as it boarded the plane in a dispute
over how 7-year-old Dina had been screened. The little girl, who has
cerebral palsy, walks with crutches and leg braces. "They make our
lives completely difficult," said her father, Dr. Joshua Frank, a Long
Island pediatrician. "She's not a threat to national security."
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The TSA keeps making excuses that such incidents aren't policy. But
they keep happening. This suggests either incompetency up and down
the TSA command and agent chain, lying, or both.
--Lauren--
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