TSA: Jersey Shore's JWOWW just 'one of several passengers' inspected

In the Transportation Security Administration's eyes, Jenni Farley of MTV’s “Jersey Shore” is a just another online hater of its airport security procedures.

In a series of tweets last weekend on her Twitter page, Farley accused the TSA of selecting her for additional airport screening at Hector International Airport in Fargo, N.D., because of her celebrity. Farley said TSA treated her "like a criminal" before her flight. 

But in a blog post on its own website, TSA said Farley was subjected to the same random inspection the other 1.8 million airline passengers the agency screens per day is.

"While she may have truly believed she was singled out, this was actually part of our random (and I do mean random) protocol," Bob Burns, who blogs for the TSA, wrote. "After looking into it more we learned she was one of several passengers who were randomly selected for gate screening prior to boarding the aircraft.  

"TSA strives to screen all passengers with dignity and respect while performing its security mission," Burns continued. "TSA employs an intelligence-driven, risk-based security approach to screen the nearly 1.8 million passengers traveling daily — which could include the occasional reality TV star."

JWOWW offered a starkly different take in her tweets to her nearly 2 million followers. 

“Has anyone got ‘randomly selected’ while walking on the plane and asked to ‘come with them’ to be additionally searched?” she wrote. “I wasn’t randomly selected cuz I saw the tsa there pointing at me while I was getting a coffee 15 min prior.” 

“Holy sh--!,” she said in another. “Travel 2x a week and never went thru what I did here :(”

Burns said JWOWW was selected for a "pre-set procedure" at gates that is designed to check for explosives. 

"This particular one consisted of a swabbing of the hands," he said. "I’ve talked about gate screening and swabbing of the hands before here on the blog."

The incident was the latest in a series of firestorms that has engulfed the TSA, which is commemorating its 10th anniversary Saturday, that began when a passenger took to social media to complain about their experience at airport security.

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