Don’t think those enhanced pat downs are excuses for the TSA to get their jollies? At Denver they were.

Here’s how the creepy scam worked:

“He related that when a male he finds attractive comes to be screened by the scanning machine he will alert another TSA screener to indicate to the scanning computer that the party being screened is a female. When the screener does this, the scanning machine will indicate an anomaly in the genital area and this allows (the male TSA screener) to conduct a pat-down search of that area.”

The TSA learned of this November 18 but didn’t act on the information until February. They monitored the screeners involved — who were identified because they bragged to other TSA employees about it — and confirmed it was happening.

Two agents are no longer working at the TSA. As they say, a few bad apples who in no way undermine the hard work that thousands of men and women at the TSA do to keep us safe, day in and day out.

(HT: @TeamRainey)