GOP Congressman Ted Poe (TX) Declares TSA Checkpoints a Violation of the Fourth Amendment

I have been saying it for months. TSA checkpoints violate the Fourth Amendment. Finally those words are being heard on the House floor.

Yesterday, Texas Republican Ted Poe declared the TSA checkpoints unconstitutional. Not only did he argue for the Constitution, he claimed former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff profited from the distribution of the naked full body scanners. You mean the naked scanner companies' lobbyists played politics as usual against the American people?

"There is no evidence these new body scanners make us more secure. But there is evidence that former Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff made money hawking these full body scanners," Poe said.

"[T]he populace is giving up more rights in the name of alleged security. These body scanners are a violation of the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures ... There must be a better way to have security at airports than taking pornographic photographs of our citizens, including children, and then giving apparent kickbacks to political hacks."