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** They were. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201124090206/http://travelunderground.org/index.php?pages%2Ftsa-abuse-master-lists%2F#BillFisher Look here.]
* After the "Shoe Bomber" incident, writer Calvin Trillin was being interviewed on ''[[The Daily Show]]'' and suggested that the perpetrator was the one terrorist in his cell with a sense of humor and had made a bet with his co-conspirators that he could get everybody taking their shoes off at airports. [[Hilarious in Hindsight|He concluded that if the main player in the next highly publicized foiled terror plot was known as the "Underwear Bomber," then we'd know he was onto something.]]
* Sad examples of this include [https://web.archive.org/web/20130730140630/http://news.travel.aol.com/2011/06/26/tsa-pats-down-elderly-woman-removes-adult-diaper-video
* Senator Rand Paul, son of the increasingly well known congressman Ron Paul, was detained by TSA agents when flying to D.C. which many felt was a retaliation for his constant criticisms of the TSA's excessive and invasive searches. While the TSA claimed he was "irate" and being uncooperative they rather quickly dropped any claims when video surveillance showed him acting completely calm during the incident.
* Another incident is where the TSA thought that ''cupcake icing'' could be used as a ''bomb''.
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