Earlier this week, Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) said that he was detained by the Transportation Security Administration at Nashville International Airport, telling a spokeswoman that he was being "detained indefinitely" after he set off an image scanner and refused a pat-down. The TSA countered that Paul was never detained, explaining that he "triggered an alarm during routine airport screening and refused to complete the screening process in order to resolve the issue... Passengers, as in this case, who refuse to comply with security procedures are denied access to the secure gate area. He was escorted out of the screening area by local law enforcement." So here's an annotated video: more ›

Senator Rand Paul, friend to 9/11 Truthers, was detained by the Transportation Security Administration after refusing to submit to a full body pat-down at Nashville's airport. The Kentucky Republican's plight was mentioned by his father, 2012 presidential contender Rep. Ron Paul, who Tweeted, "My son @SenRandPaul being detained by TSA for refusing full body pat-down after anomaly in body scanner in Nashville. More details coming." Senator Paul was on his way to D.C. for the Senate session. more ›

What kind of nation have we become when royalty like Miss USA 2003 Susie Castillo has to submit to the obscene vulgarities of airport screening? Is no one's junk exempt from degrading scenes like this? (Ask John Boehner.) In this tearful video (presumably shot by her chaperone), Castillo explains how her vagina was touched four times during a TSA patdown: more ›

TSA screeners are instructed to keep their eyes peeled for people who are "very arrogant and expresses contempt against airport passenger procedures," according to the TSA's list of roughly 70 "behavioral indicators" obtained by CNN. In an interesting think-piece on American security theater, CNN finds that—shocker—some of the TSA's methods are unsound. Like the one where they expect the bad guys to call attention to themselves by acting like boorish jerks who hate the very screeners they're trying to tiptoe past. more ›

Since the Transportation Security Administration rolled out their new full-body scanners in November, they've received over 1,000 complaints about TSA agents getting a little too friendly during "enhanced" pat downs, which travelers can opt for if they don't want to go through the scanners. And now they're apparently doing them just for kicks? Nancy Campbell, 33, tells the Post she was groped during a pat-down at LaGuardia Airport last week after she had cleared security. more ›

Concerned about the TSA's new porno-scanners and enhanced labia-fondling pat-downs? Mayor Bloomberg says shut up and spread 'em. Hizzoner claims he even got a pat-down himself—before boarding a private flight in D.C. He described the experience as a reminder "that we live in a dangerous world" and told reporters yesterday, "We have to stop all this shilly-shallying and understand if you want to be safe on airplanes we have to make sure that we keep you safe. If you have a better idea, call Janet Napolitano. I'm 100% in sympathy. She wants to make sure we're safe." As do the TSA screeners, who would like you to know that they're not getting off on seeing you naked or touching your junk. more ›

We're now aware of three separate incidents in which TSA screeners have allegedly touched travelers vaginas during the new "enhanced" pat-downs. To recap: A blogger in Dayton, Ohio says a TSA employee at a Dallas airport touched her breasts, buttocks, vagina area and "both of my labia"; an elementary schoolteacher from Washington says, "I didn’t really expect her to touch my vagina through my pants"; and today an ABC News employee claims she was subject to a "demeaning" search at Newark Liberty International Airport Sunday morning. This one's the worst: more ›