Geraldo: I Was 'Raped' by TSA Agent

'My junk was junked' on way to Afghanistan, he says
By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff
Posted May 14, 2012 12:04 AM CDT
Updated May 14, 2012 12:33 AM CDT
Geraldo: I Was 'Raped' by TSA Agent
Geraldo: The angrier I got, the more intimate he got.   (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file)

Geraldo Rivera says he was "manually raped" by a New York airport security guard on his way to cover a story in Afghanistan. "The last time I flew to Afghanistan, I got manually raped by a guy," he said on Fox and Friends. "The scanner wasn't working. This guy, it seemed to me, was getting off on it. The angrier I got, he just wanted to be a little more intimate, and go up here and go down there," he recalled. "My junk was junked."

Rivera's gripe joins a litany of complaints against pushy, overly familiar TSA agents. A teenage girl's insulin pump was recently busted when she was ordered through a scanner against doctor's orders, and an aggressive patdown of two little girls—including one with cerebral palsy—infuriated their parents. (More Geraldo Rivera stories.)

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