WASHINGTON, DC — A federal court has dismissed a Fourth Amendment lawsuit filed by The Rutherford Institute challenging the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) airport security screening policy of requiring air passengers to either submit to virtual strip searches involving advanced imaging technology (AIT), which exposes intimate details of a person's body to government agents, or submit to highly invasive pat down searches during which TSA agents may go so far as to reach inside a traveler's pants. U.S. District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., justified his dismissal by declaring that the court has no jurisdiction over the case, citing a secret order issued by the TSA which requires that the D.C. Court of Appeals hear any reviews of TSA orders. Insisting that it contains "sensitive security information," the government has yet to make public the order embodying the TSA enhanced screening procedures.

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