{"id":28428,"date":"2012-01-23T13:10:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28428"},"modified":"2012-01-23T13:10:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T17:10:23","slug":"rand-paul-accosted-by-tsa-at-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28428","title":{"rendered":"Rand Paul accosted by TSA at airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sends a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/politics\/2012\/01\/rand-paul-in-pat-down-standoff-with-tsa-in-nashville\/\">ABC News<\/a> that Rand Paul set off alarms at the airport in nashville. When he refused the pat down, he was escorted out of the secure area;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen 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,\u201d according to an official statement released by TSA. \u201cPassengers who refuse to complete the screening process cannot be granted access to the secure area in order to ensure the safety of others traveling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul\u2019s office confirmed he set off  an airport security full-body scanner \u201con a glitch,\u201d according to a spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>The Paul staffer said TSA agents would not let Paul walk back through the body scanner and were demanding a full body pat-down.<\/p>\n<p>The Paul spokesman said his office called TSA administrator John Pistole about the incident this morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like TSO said, it&#8217;s like watching A-Rod wrestling with the devil&#8230;who do you cheer for? I think the story would have been better if they&#8217;d stop Paul because he was on a no-fly list for being a suspected crank or for his apparent connections to Adam Kokesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Trooper sends a link from ABC News that Rand Paul set off alarms at the &hellip; <a title=\"Rand Paul accosted by TSA at airport\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28428\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rand Paul accosted by TSA at airport<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ron-paul","category-tsa-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}