Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s press secretary Moira Bagley tweeted on Monday that Transportation Security Administration officials were detaining her boss in Nashville, Tenn.

“Just got a call from @senrandpaul,” Bagley tweeted at about 10 a.m. on Monday. “He’s currently being detained by TSA in Nashville.”

Texas Congressman and current Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul – Sen. Rand Paul’s father – placed a post on Facebook about the news as well. “My son Rand is currently being detained by the TSA at the Nashville Airport,” Ron Paul posted. “I’ll share more details as the situation unfolds.”

Ron Paul adds, via Twitter, that the TSA detained his son “for refusing full body pat-down after anomaly in body scanner.”

Sen. Rand Paul’s Facebook page has a post about the incident too. “Senator Paul is being detained at the Nashville Airport by the TSA,” Sen. Rand Paul’s Facebook post reads. “We will update you as the situation develops.”

Sen. Rand Paul’s chief of staff Doug Stafford told The Daily Caller the Senator “was detained by the TSA after their scanner had an ‘anomaly’ on the first scan.”

“He offered to go through again,” Stafford said in an email. “The TSA said he could only have a full body pat down. He would not consent to it. He offered to go through the scanner again. The situation is ongoing.”
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Sen. Rand Paul has previously referred to the TSA’s use of full body pat downs as the “universality of insult,” and he called on the agency to end the tactic.

“I think you ought to get rid of the random pat-downs,” Sen. Rand Paul said in June 2011. “The American public is unhappy with them, they’re unhappy with the invasiveness of them.”

Spokespeople for the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the TSA, have not returned requests for comment.

Good for him. Fuck the TSA.

This is the point at which common sense should, but won't rule the day.

When our politicians are packing explosives onto a plane, we are fucked anyway.

Beat me to it.

Here is a longer article. I like the underlined passage.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky was stopped by security at the Nashville airport Monday when a scanner set off an alarm and targeted his knee, although the senator said he has no screws or medical hardware around the joint.

The Republican, who frequently uses the airport about an hour from his home in Bowling Green, Ky., told The Associated Press in a telephone interview that he asked for another scan but refused to submit to a pat down by airport security.

He said he was "detained" at a small cubicle and couldn't make his flight to Washington for a Senate vote scheduled later in the day.

Paul, the son of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, said the situation reflects his long-standing concern that the TSA shouldn't be "spending so much time with people who wouldn't attack us."

TSA spokesman Greg Soule confirmed there was an incident but didn't identify the passenger as Paul.

"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," Soule said in a written statement. "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."

A TSA official speaking on condition of anonymity in order to discuss internal screening policies said Paul was never detained. The official said an alarm set off when Paul went through routine airport screening, and Paul refused to receive additional screening. People who refuse to go through airport security are not allowed to get on a plane, the official said. Local police escorted Paul out of the screening area, the official said.

Paul went through a millimeter wave machine that uses a generic outline of a body for all passengers. When there is an alarm, TSA officers target the area of the body that triggered the alarm and pat down the passenger, the official said.

Paul told reporters at the airport that he had no idea why his knee raised concerns with TSA. He said he showed his knee to the security agents and doesn't have any medical hardware or issues in the knee.

"There is no problem. It was just a problem with their machine. But this is getting more frequent, and because everybody has to have a pat down it's a problem," Paul said.

Paul said he was in Denver two days ago and allowed to walk through the screener again and avoided the pat down.

He said he didn't want special treatment from TSA because he's a senator. "I think we need to treat everybody with dignity."

The TSA said Paul was allowed to board another flight after a different screening.

In a June 2011 Senate hearing, Paul raised issue with TSA's screening policies and relayed the story of a 6-year-old constituent who was patted down at an airport.

"I feel less safe because you're doing these invasive exams on a six-year-old," Paul said to TSA Administrator John Pistole. "It makes me think you're clueless, you know, that you think she's going to attack our country and that you're not doing your research on the people who would attack our country."

The TSA has since changed its policy for patting down children to reduce the number of times children have to go through the procedure.

he is a libertarian INFILTRATOR in the GOP

fuck him and his dad

TSA should have fucked him up

LTKilling wrote:

he is a libertarian INFILTRATOR in the GOP

fuck him and his dad

TSA should have fucked him up

It is the voter's job to fuck politicians up if need be.
Your comment is idiotic beyond words.

MowerMan wrote:

LTKilling wrote:

he is a libertarian INFILTRATOR in the GOP

fuck him and his dad

TSA should have fucked him up

It is the voter's job to fuck politicians up if need be.
Your comment is idiotic beyond words.

You're wasting your time. LTKilling is a GOP straight ticket vote. As long as they have a little "R" next to their name he'll vote for them.

No different then a Dipshitocrat who votes for anyone with a "D" next to their name.

Saber25 wrote:

MowerMan wrote:

LTKilling wrote:

he is a libertarian INFILTRATOR in the GOP

fuck him and his dad

TSA should have fucked him up

It is the voter's job to fuck politicians up if need be.
Your comment is idiotic beyond words.

You're wasting your time. LTKilling is a GOP straight ticket vote. As long as they have a little "R" next to their name he'll vote for them.

No different then a Dipshitocrat who votes for anyone with a "D" next to their name.

LTKilling wrote:

Saber25 wrote:

MowerMan wrote:

LTKilling wrote:

he is a libertarian INFILTRATOR in the GOP

fuck him and his dad

TSA should have fucked him up

It is the voter's job to fuck politicians up if need be.
Your comment is idiotic beyond words.

You're wasting your time. LTKilling is a GOP straight ticket vote. As long as they have a little "R" next to their name he'll vote for them.

No different then a Dipshitocrat who votes for anyone with a "D" next to their name.

If by traitor you mean someone who sees the 2 party system as a complete fraud, a monetary system on the verge of collapse due to loose fiscal policy, a once great nation succumbing to internal rot from bad policy and even worse politicians then yes.

But you keep sucking the dick of the 2 party system and keep believing in the false left vs right paradigm and go back to your parents basement and wonder why nothing ever changes no matter who's in power.

Fucking idiot

saber25 how about you fuck yourself

how about you VOTE FOR THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY

not a chance in hell to win

ahahaha

LTKilling wrote:

he is a libertarian INFILTRATOR in the GOP

fuck him and his dad

TSA should have fucked him up

You're right about the GOP being infiltrated, but it happened about 20 years ago. Same is true for the Democrats. Baby boomers have fucked up both parties.

Ron Paul was voting like a REAL conservative before you were born.

LTKilling wrote:

saber25 how about you fuck yourself

how about you VOTE FOR THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY

not a chance in hell to win

ahahaha

I would tell you go suck on the barrel of a loaded gun but I fear you wouldn't have the intelligence to be able to work out the complex dynamics of ending ones own existence.

Keep voting for the 1 of the 2 parties loser, let me know how that works out for you.

The article got it wrong.

This happened at Reagan National in D.C.