Former Secretary of State arrived at LaGuardia security checkpoint in a wheelchair
Apparently none of the dumbass TSA screeners recognized the prominent former Secretary of State. Kissinger joins 4-year-old Isabella Brademeyer who also got a full pat-down at the Wichita, Kansas airport last April. The TSA has been roundly criticized for searching children and grannies. TSA justifies its searches by claiming that it has found numerous weapons through its searches.
According to the Los Angeles Times, last week at T.F. Green International Airport in Warwick, R.I., TSA agents discovered gun parts hidden inside three stuffed animals. A man traveling with his 4-year-old son claimed that he didn't know the gun parts were in his son's toys. Also last week, TSA agents at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey found a knife mounted on a metal walker that an elderly passenger tried to bring on a plane.
Nevertheless, the searching of children and the elderly by TSA - something Israeli airport security officials do not do unless prior intelligence requires it - is a ridiculous and worthless practice designed to make the flying public feel safer.
HENRY KISSINGER GIVEN ‘FULL PAT-DOWN’ BY TSA AGENTS
by Nina Mandell
New York Daily News
May 15, 2012
Apparently someone didn’t pay attention in their high school Civic’s class.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was patted down by the TSA on his flight from New York’s LaGuardia airport to Toronto, a witness told The Washington Post.
Kissinger, who won a Nobel Prize for his role in ending the Vietnam War, was directed to the pat-down line after arriving at security in a wheelchair, the newspaper reported.
“He stood with his suit jacket off, and he was wearing suspenders,” Matthew Cole, a freelance reporter, told the Post. “They gave him the full pat-down. None of the agents seemed to know who he was.”
The 89-year-old was reportedly traveling with an aide and remained in good spirits through the security check.
Kissinger follows in a long line of politicans and other noteworthy figures to receive pat-downs at TSA security lines.
Congressman Rand Paul and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) have both been stopped by officials on their way to the friendly skies.
The TSA did not immediately return a request for comment.
1 comment:
I don't know, he looks pretty damn suspicious to me.
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