NEW YORK (PNN) - January 18, 2012 - In an about-face, federal officials from the Transportation Security Administration have admitted wrongdoing in the cases of two elderly women who were strip-searched at Kennedy Airport by perverted screeners.
Federal officials had previously insisted that all “screening procedures were followed” after Ruth Sherman, 89, and Lenore Zimmerman, 85, went public with separate accounts of humiliating strip searches.
But in a letter obtained by the Daily News, the Amerikan Gestapo Department of Homeland Security division acknowledges that screeners violated standard practice in their treatment of the ailing octogenarians last November.
Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Betsy Markey conceded to state Senator Michael Gianaris (Queens) that Sherman was forced to show security agents her colostomy bag - a violation of policy.
“It is not standard operating procedure for colostomy devices to be visually inspected, and [the Transportation Security Administration] apologizes for this employee’s action,” wrote Markey.
The letter says that Sherman, who uses a wheelchair, was escorted into a private area after she “voluntarily” lowered her pants - after being threatened by TSA thug pervert officials if she refused to comply - to show screeners the device.
In the private room, she was patted down and told to show agents the colostomy bag.
Markey still maintained that the Florida-based Sherman was never asked to remove her clothing, which Sherman asserts is a blatant lie.
“They asked me to pull my sweatpants down, and now they’re not telling you the truth,” Sherman fumed.
Markey also lied when she denied that Zimmerman had been strip-searched, but did apologize for the conduct of a TSA agent who violated policy by scanning the Long Island granny’s back brace.
Zimmerman had told The News two female agents removed her clothes - instead of just patting her down - after she revealed that she was wearing a defibrillator.
“They’re lying,” said Zimmerman. “I don’t have a problem with [screeners checking] the back brace. I have a problem with being strip-searched.”
Senator Gianaris, who wrote to the TSA requesting a full investigation, said the pervert thug fed officials’ account is full of lies and misrepresentations.
