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So basically the TSA director states that there are 8 or 9 terrorists in the whole world and it's their job to find those 8 or 9 individuals. Oh and they will let you slide for $100 (and a BJ or a feel?)

A three-year-old wheelchair-bound boy has been subjected to an invasive security pat-down and explosives swabbing on his way to Disney World in Florida.

The young boy, who was with his family at O'Hare Airport in Chicago, was about to take-off on the dream holiday when he was search by Transport Security Administration (TSA), according to The Daily Mail.

Confined to a wheelchair due to a recently broken leg, video footage shows the boy "trembling with fear" and asking his parents to hold his hand.

The Daily Mail reports that the terrified boy was swabbed on his hands and under his shirt for explosive residue.
His understandably upset father posted the intrusive search on YouTube.

Despite such strict security for this toddler, the TSA is offering background-checked travellers the chance to use special lines and keep their shoes, belt and jacket on, leave laptops and liquids in carry-on bags and avoid a full-body scan - for a price, The Daily Mail says.

The TSA's new fast track 'Precheck' screening, now at two airlines and nine airports, is similar to security checks before 9/11, reports the Wall Street Journal.

To qualify, frequent fliers must be invited by airlines and meet an undisclosed TSA criteria.

A $100 fee for a background check is required as well as a brief interview with a Customs officer.

The program can improve screening of unknown passengers if it can move low-risk people out of the main queues, the TSA claims.

'We can reduce the size of the haystack when we are looking for that one-in-a-billion terrorist,' TSA Administrator John Pistole said.

Mr Pistole added that by studying frequent-flier histories as well as conducting background checks, he was confident the US now had the technology and the intelligence information to make less-rigorous, faster screening work.
Precheck lanes are already in place only at nine US airports. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr4CoZjTdyI



full story @ the West Australian