In 1961, a psychologist conducted an experiment demonstrating how ordinary men and women could be induced to inflict torture on complete strangers, merely because an authority figure had ordered them to do so.

150 volts.

Answer of course. In 2001 the United States government formed the Transportation Security Administration to subject hundreds of millions of air travelers to increasingly

humiliating and invasive searches and pat-downs.

What the hell is going on here?

These two phenomena are not as disconnected as they may seem.

Today we explore the TSA and other experiments in evil. This is the Corbett Report.

In the Security Administration. Good morning, Robin.

This place is a ghost town for the second day in a row.

The security checkpoint here at Terminal B inside of Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport is shut down. Those are the ticket

counters right there behind me. They are empty as well. Hundreds of TSA employees who are

working without pay right now have called out from work this week at Dallas Fort Worth alone.

Sick calls are up almost 300 percent.

Also the busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic, the Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson. The

at heart-Fartsville Jackson Airport reported delays of more than an hour at checkpoints at times on

Monday.

I was in JFK at J.F.K JFK at 630 a.m. the other day and they were playing that poop-pity scoop

cogniz song and I felt like I was in the twilight zone.

So ladies, what do you think about these agents going

from TSA to TSA?

I feel like whistle while you work. Okay?

You know what I'm saying?

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