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Through with it, right? >> then i was detained and then i was expelled. i was expelled to the other side of the airport. when i got there, the head of the local tsa came, we'll let you back to the screening. then i walked through the screening about an hour and a half later. it didn't go off. my question to him was -- why does it go off one time and not the next? is the machine imperfect? the interesting thing i found out was i think i was selected by the machine for a random pat down. that is why it's going off sometimes and not going off when you don't change anything and walk through again....

Either the machine is not very good or they programming random screening, a couple told me off record, i was subjected to a random screening but they said you set off a buzzer so we don't have a choice. i don't think a random pat-downs are making us any safer. i want to know where the middle eastern students that are in this country, if they get on plane, if you've been to yemen in the last six months i would want to know more about your travel. most american citizens need to go through an easy security process not too invasive and take away our dignity. >> greta: at any point or any time did ...

Very good or they're programming in random screenings. and a couple of them off record told me, yes, i was probably subjected to a random screening, but they're tricking the public into thinking, oh, you set off the buzzer, so we don't have a choice in this random pat-down. i don't think the random pat-downs are making us any safer. i want to know where the middle-eastern students are, in our country, are they in class, going to class? if you have been to yemen twice in the last six months, i want to know who you are and know more about your travel. but most american citizens need a relatively...

Targeted pat-downs or leave. security experts say not only would repeat scans hold up the line, they would allow bombers to hide or, worse, activate a device. >> then you're giving a potential terrorist a second bite at the apple to see if maybe he can get through the second time. >> reporter: and reacting to controversies over pat-downs of the very young and older americans complaining about embarrassing body searches, the government is now allowing kids under 12 to keep their shoes on and installing privacy filters on most scanners. but senator or salesman, the tsa says some rules are not ab...

Isn't making us safer, if there's a problem with this, what are those of you with oversight doing about it? what can you do about it? >> we have done incredible oversight. unfortunately, tsa was taken from the transportation committee after we created it, put in homeland security. so it's in an agency that gin combines 22 other agencies and they have an army that's built to 65,000 people, bigger than cabinet agencies. you have a lot of bureaucrats trying to justify their existence, not wanting to reform the system and make it risk-based. i'd love to tell you and i can tell you that classified ...