CNN reporter describes ‘humiliating’ pat-down at airport. <br />A CNN reporter has filmed the moment she was given what she calls an invasive “vaginal pat-down” by airport security. <br />Angela Rye was randomly selected for additional screening by Transport Security Administration (TAS) officers at Detroit’s Metro Airport on Friday. <br />The political commentator said she was originally sent back through the backscatter machine but told she would then need to be given a “backhanded pat down around the upper thigh” by a female security officer. <br />But in an opinion piece published for CNN, Rye said the pat-down went much further than that. <br />“The pat-down began and was uneventful until she went down my leg, up my dress, and her hand sideways hits me right in the crack of my labia,” Rye wrote. <br />“Startled, I jump and feel a lump in my throat trying to hold back tears. What happened to the back handed pat-down?