Even a Nobel Peace Prize winner can’t avoid a pat-down.
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger got searched by a Transportation Security Administration employee while going through a security checkpoint at LaGuardia Airport in New York Friday, The Washington Post reports.
Kissinger, who was in a wheelchair, was told by a TSA agent that he needed to be searched.
“He stood with his suit jacket off, and he was wearing suspenders,” freelance reporter Matthew Cole told the Post. “They gave him the full pat-down. None of the agents seemed to know who he was.” Cole added that Kissinger was given “the full Monty” search.
Kissinger negotiated the Paris Peace Accords which helped bring an end to the Vietnam War.
Earlier this year, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was detained at a Nashville airport after refusing to be searched by TSA officials.
(Source: WCBSTV)
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6 Responses
The TSA is totally clueless. The pat downs are arbitrarily decided by a bunch of barely trained, intellectually challenged twits who are only working for the TSA because McDonald’s wasn’t hiring. It’s time we used retired law enforcement professionals with brains in their heads instead of these minimum wage, brainless nitwits.
Would you truly expect a TSA agent to know who kissenger is???
He never played in the NBA or won an oscar!
There is nothing to add to the first 2 comments. Very well said.
Sometimes it hard differentiates between different types of evils. He has been riding to high and needed a good pat down to humble him a bit.
#1 — Why do you glibly assume retired law enforcement professionals have brains in their heads?
#2, I gurantee you, if you were to pass Kissinger in the street, you wouldnt notice him either