Rand Paul on TSA incident: “I don’t want special treatment”

Thu, 01/26/2012 - 2:45pm | posted by Jason Pye

Sen. Rand Paul recently appeared on Fox News with Greta Van Sustren to discuss his detention at Nashville International Airport after TSA officers refused to let him pass back through a full-body scanner.

Paul explained the incident in an op-ed at the Washington Times, but offered more details in this interview, including that the scanners may have programmed random false-positives. But he notes that he was indeed detained (the TSA pushed back on this point on Monday) and is using the incident to point out that passengers need to have dignity when they fly and not be treated like suspects:

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