Gene Healy
"Rand Paul has got to be on the 'Top 10 People TSA Would Be Smart to Leave Alone' list," National Review's Jonah Goldberg tweeted when news broke of the senator's run-in with the Transportation Security Administration at Nashville International Airport last week.
Kentucky's junior senator missed his flight when he refused a pat-down after a body scanner showed an "anomaly" on his knee.
Someone with a conspiratorial mind-set might suspect a little payback for the grilling Paul gave TSA Administrator John Pistole last summer over the agency's policy of giving the "freedom fondle" to innocent 6-year-old girls. But that assumes the TSA has enough on the ball to carry out even a minor conspiracy.
Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/31/the-tsas-war-on-innocent-travelers
"Rand Paul has got to be on the 'Top 10 People TSA Would Be Smart to Leave Alone' list," National Review's Jonah Goldberg tweeted when news broke of the senator's run-in with the Transportation Security Administration at Nashville International Airport last week.
Kentucky's junior senator missed his flight when he refused a pat-down after a body scanner showed an "anomaly" on his knee.
Someone with a conspiratorial mind-set might suspect a little payback for the grilling Paul gave TSA Administrator John Pistole last summer over the agency's policy of giving the "freedom fondle" to innocent 6-year-old girls. But that assumes the TSA has enough on the ball to carry out even a minor conspiracy.
Read more: http://reason.com/archives/2012/01/31/the-tsas-war-on-innocent-travelers
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