'Useless' TSA scanners provided endless fodder for employees, former agent alleges

``"Finally, the public had a hint of what my colleagues and I already knew," he wrote. "The scanners were useless. The TSA was compelling toddlers, pregnant women, cancer survivors -- everyone -- to stand inside radiation machines that didn't work...behind closed doors, supervisors instructed us to begin patting down the sides of every fifth passenger as a clumsy workaround to the scanners' embarrassing vulnerability." ''