The TSA, flush with change from your pocket, has finally gotten around to apologizing to the elderly women who were strip-searched at the JetBlue terminal at JFK over the Thanksgiving holiday. Well, sort of.
In a letter obtained by the News, Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Betsy Markey acknowledges that agents violated policy when they insisted that 89-year-old Ruth Sherman show her colostomy bag—"It is not standard operating procedure for colostomy devices to be visually inspected, and [the Transportation Security Administration] apologizes for this employee’s action,"—but she wouldn't apologize for all of the things the women claim were done to them.
Specifically, 85-year-old Lenore Zimmerman insists that she was forced to remove her clothing and the TSA says she wasn't. Instead, Markey apologized because a TSA agent "violated policy" by scanning her back brace. "They’re lying," said Zimmerman responded. "I don’t have a problem with [screeners checking my] back brace. I have a problem with being strip-searched."
No word yet from the TSA regarding the third older woman who came forward that weekend saying she was stripped by the JFK TSA.
