Isn’t it surprising that she doesn’t want to sacrifice her privacy so someone who never flies can have the illusion of air safety? As someone who has flown to fifty countries and six continents, I’m with her.

“This past weekend I was in Phoenix, the weekend before I was in Las Vegas, the weekend before I was in Vancouver,” she said. “I do not fly for pleasure at all, pleasure is staying home.”

Briles has two double knee implants, so she always “rings” at the metal detector. After a few recent trips, the TSA, she feels, is intimately familiar with her. She has been checked several times recently by the TSA, and one of those times was a private session.

“I really don’t know who marked the box and said, ‘Yes, now let’s really touch them.’ Let’s turn from feeling where they would go on the back of their hand and going down – now they’re doing full frontal, where they run their hands over your breasts, they will cup your breast, they’re going inside your collar,” Briles said. “If anyone pulled what TSA is doing, they would be sued and fired for just blatant sexual harassment.”