It was the Rand Paul incident that finally did it. The senator from Kentucky was going through airport security en route to D.C. in January when a metal detector went off. Paul said there was a mistake and wanted to walk through the detector again to clear it up. TSA wouldn't allow that. Its agents insisted on an enhanced pat-down. Paul, a vocal critic of the agency's intrusiveness, wasn't up for being groped that day. He missed his flight in the ensuing standoff.
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