PolitiFact Georgia | Homeland security chief stresses that "very, very, very few people" get hands-on treatment at U.S. airports

PolitiFact Georgia | Homeland security chief stresses that "very, very, very few people" get hands-on treatment at U.S. airports:

"That means that over the course of a month, roughly 1.8 million people receive a pat-down. That’s more than four times the population of Atlanta.

That doesn’t sound like 'very, very, very' few people to us.

If Napolitano said that 'a small percentage of passengers' get patted down each month, she would have been correct. But she talked about 'people.' In addition, she used the superlative 'very' three times, even though the TSA’s own figures show that the numbers of passengers who receive a pat-down can top 1 million in a single month.

We rate her statement Pants On Fire."