On Monday, I caught up with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) in Washington’s Reagan National Airport after he dominated Twitter with his tale of being detained by the TSA because he refused a pat-down in Nashville. Paul told reporters waiting for him in the DC terminal that he believed he was asked to accede to the pat-down because of a scanner that was rigged to flag false-positives in order to create the excuse for a random search.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=102152