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boondocker on Sept 4, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Court: Federal Law Allows Lying in TSA-Related FOI...

Rand Paul wants to defund them and was detained by TSA for refusing a pat down. He may very well be the Republican nominee for President in 2016.

bsullivan01 on Sept 4, 2013 [–]

Anyone refusing a pat down will be detained.

The lowly TSA hourly employee was probably shaking at the thought of having to do that to a US Senator and possible consequences but he had to do it.

tsaoutourpants on Sept 4, 2013 | [–]

I'm sure he had no idea.

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