TSA idiot for the day

Time has an article by Charlotte Alter about another government moron:

A Transportation Security Administration agent at LaGuardia airport in New York City was charged Friday with sexually abusing a female passenger on the bogus pretext of checking her for weapons.
The incident occurred earlier this week, when the forty-year-old TSA agent allegedly told the twenty-one--year-old woman, a college student from Korea, that he needed to screen her for weapons after she had walked out of the sterile checkpoint area and into the area where passengers no longer need to be checked.
The woman asked to be screened by a female agent, according to a press release from the Queens District Attorney’s Office, but the TSA agent allegedly insisted she come into the bathroom with him. When she asked if all passengers were screened this way, he said they were. In the bathroom, the agent groped the victim, before saying into his cell phone something like “she’s clear, she doesn’t have any weapons or knives,” according to the DA’s office.
The TSA has terminated the agent and is cooperating with the Port Authority on the investigation, a TSA spokesman said. The DA’s office has charged the agent with unlawful imprisonment and sexual abuse. If convicted, he could face a year in prison. It was not immediately clear whether he has a lawyer.

Rico says whadda ya want for twenty bucks an hour, a genius? (And the fact that the 'molestation' photo was already on-line shows how fast the Internet works...)