[etchalon]

Because the "abuse" in this case was utterly reasonable given the circumstances and the person's behavior.

This is pretty rare for the TSA (the number of stories where they had no cause to be idiots is much MUCH higher than cases where they did).

[smsm42]

How is it reasonable? They knew or should have known he's not a terrorist in first 15 minutes. What were they doing for three and a half hours? Why did they ask him about praying and problems with female attendants and such?