Business as usual for the TSA

[Quantum Windbag]

Funny, I thought diplomatic immunity applied to everyone, including the TSA.

India's sari-clad ambassador was pulled from an airport security line and patted down by a TSA agent in Mississippi after attending a conference, an act one state agency official called "unfortunate." The hands-on search last week also embarrassed the university officials who invited Meera Shankar, India's ambassador to the United States, to give a speech for an international studies program.
"It was a wonderful program, maybe the best we've had, (but) this stupid incident ruined the whole thing. She said, 'I will never come back here,'" said Janos Radvanyi, chair of Mississippi State University's international studies department. "We are sending her a letter of apology."
But a Transportation Security Administration spokesman said diplomats are not exempt from the searches and that Shankar "was screened in accordance with TSA's security policies and procedures."

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