Was Senator Rand Paul Detained By The TSA At The At Nashville Airport

Was Senator Rand Paul Detained By The TSA At The At Nashville Airport or was it just hog wash?

As most of you know, the Kentucky Senator is the politician most anxious to abolish the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).

According to Senator Pauls’ Communications Director, Moira Bagley, Rand Paul refused a full body pat down, after the airport security scanner went off. Paul lifted his pant leg to show he had no metal, and asked to be re-screened. He was denied that request.

However, U.S. officials of TSA states that, “they did not ‘detain’ him—though that is the word Paul’s office is using.”

Bagley has now told Politico, “I spoke with him five minutes ago and he was being detained indefinitely… The image scan went off, he refused patdown.”

But according to CNN’s Dana Bash, with a response from the TSA, they state that Senator Paul walked away willing.

According to TSA’s spokesman Greg Soule, “When an irregularity is found during the TSA screening process, it must be resolved prior to allowing a passenger to proceed to the secure area of the airport.”

“Passengers who refuse to complete the screening process cannot be granted access to the secure area in order to ensure the safety of others traveling.”

I think we can safely say that the liberty-loving Senator may not have been a threat to board the airplane but he is likely to be a bigger threat to the TSA from now on.

Rand Paul was scheduled to speak at the annual ‘March for Life’ today in Washington D.C. Which is an anti-abortion rights activists held on the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling Roe w. Wade. Perhaps they will not be hearing the Senator.

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