Sen. Mike Lee is constant to name for the abolition of the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA).
“Uninterested in being groped each time you journey? Abolish TSA,” the senator stated in a latest submit on X.
“Make Airport Safety Free Of Sexual Assault Once more,” Lee stated in one other tweet, including, “Abolish TSA.”
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Chairman Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, speaks through the Senate Power and Pure Sources affirmation listening to for U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Power Chris Wright on Capitol Hill on Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Left: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Photographs; Proper: Joe Raedle/Getty Photographs)
In one other submit, he urged that President Donald Trump ought to eradicate the TSA.
Lee means that as a substitute of TSA, airways may deal with passenger screening.
“Chances are you’ll be required to endure a pat-down process if the screening expertise alarms, as a part of unpredictable safety measures, for enhanced screening, or as an alternative choice to different sorts of screening, akin to superior imaging expertise screening,” in keeping with the TSA web site. “A pat-down might embody inspection of the top, neck, arms, torso, legs, and toes. This consists of head coverings and delicate areas akin to breasts, groin, and the buttocks.”
The company was established within the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror assaults.
“The Aviation and Transportation Safety Act, handed by the 107th Congress and signed on November 19, 2001, established TSA,” in keeping with the TSA’s web site.
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The TSA seal. (Jeffrey Greenberg/UCG/Common Photographs Group through Getty Photographs)
Lee advocated the concept of nixing TSA final yr as nicely.
“It’s time to abolish the TSA. Airways can and can safe their very own planes if a federal company doesn’t do it for them. They’ll do it higher than TSA, with out undermining the Structure and with much less groping—exhibiting extra respect for passengers,” the senator declared in a submit final yr on March 11.
Days later, Lee indicated that he had been subjected to a TSA pat down.
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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah., arrives for the Senate Republicans management election within the Capitol on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024 (Invoice Clark/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photographs)
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“Replace: days after calling to abolish TSA, I acquired ‘randomly chosen’ for the needlessly sluggish, thorough TSA screening & patdown. Perhaps it’s a coincidence. Or not. Inconceivable to know. That’s a part of the issue with having a federal company answerable for airport safety,” he tweeted on March 14, 2024.
In December, the senator shared a video of a person being subjected to a pat down.
“It’s unsettling figuring out that the TSA does this numerous instances every single day, continually conducting needlessly invasive, warrantless, suspicion-less searches of law-abiding Individuals,” Lee wrote when sharing the video. “Please share if you happen to’d prefer to abolish TSA,” he added.
