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John Tyner, the Don't 'Touch My Junk' Guy: Where Is He Now?

John Tyner was just one of a host of people who momentarily grabbed the spotlight in 2010 and dominated a news cycle or two while getting their 15 minutes of fame. In this series, AOL News is checking in on 25 of these newsmakers and giving them a 16th minute. Mark Boster, Los Angeles Times / MCT John Tyner...

Children's Singer Takes on TSA With Protest Tune

(Dec. 17) -- Finally, someone is benefiting from the invasive TSA body searches: A Grammy-winning children's music artist, who after a four-decade career groping for a hit has written a song about the Transportation Security Administration that's touched a nerve -- among other body parts. His name is Buck Howdy and his...

Airport Lines Move Smoothly Despite Warnings

CHICAGO (Nov. 24) -- The lines of Thanksgiving travelers moved quickly and smoothly at airports around the country Wednesday morning despite an Internet campaign to get passengers to gum up the works on one of the busiest days of the year by refusing full-body scans. The Transportation Security Administration said very...

The TSA's Greatest Hits: 4 Notorious Pat-Downs

(Nov. 22) -- It hit critical mass when a California man decided that the government's new airport security measures went too far. "If you touch my junk, I'll have you arrested," John Tyner told a Transportation Security Administration agent in a San Diego airport earlier this month, as the agent prepared to perform a new...

TSA Chief Says No Change in Airport Scanners, Pat-Downs

(Nov. 17) -- Faced with a barrage of questions about new airline screening procedures, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said today there would be no changes in the use of full-body scans and pat-downs for passengers. Administrator John Pistole acknowledged at a congressional hearing that the new...

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05/11/12 Geraldo Rivera calls TSA screening 'manual rape' Source: NBC - NBC 40 WTWC - Tallahassee FL It's been almost two years since "don't touch my junk" entered the traveler lexicon but some Internet memes never go out of style.

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The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that exercises authority over the security of the traveling public in the United States.

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