TSA Agents Conduct ‘Full Monty’ Pat-Down On Henry Kissinger

[kpete]

Source: CBS

TSA Agents Conduct ‘Full Monty’ Pat-Down On Henry Kissinger
May 14, 2012 2:46 PM


Henry Kissinger, pat down, TSA
NEW YORK (CBSDC) — 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.



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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. There is something perversely ironic about this.

Elderly Nixon Administration relic and unindicted war criminal gets his ancient junk groped at the airport.

Weird.

[Ken Burch]

2. Just this once...I actually feel sorry for the TSA

Will therapy be offered to the agents involved in this patdown? Or at least a fully-paid lobotomy?

[cstanleytech]

13. "Or at least a fully-paid lobotomy?" The cheapest way is for them to turn on fox news.

1 minute exposure should be more than enough to wipe away the entire incident.

[FarCenter]

17. More victims of PTSD

[Ken Burch]

18. "the horror...the horror..."

[AnotherMcIntosh]

3. Couldn't "avoid a pat-down"? It looks like he couldn't avoid a feel-up either?

Is that what he wanted?

Is that why he was flying on a commercial plane?

How much money does he have socked away? How many powerful friends does he have? And he doesn't fly on a private plane? How odd.

[freshwest]

22. Yeah, why wasn't he in the frequent flyer express check-in line? I suspect he wanted the intimacy.

Or, better yet, this was his body double. Meanwhile he snuck onto another plane and this was to throw off anyone who wants to serve him with papers...

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. "None of the agents seemed to know who he was" A war criminal from

another era is all.

http://etan.org/news/kissinger/default.htm

[crunch60]

12. He's not called " Killer Kissinger" for nothing! I hope they humiliated him

just a bit. How these war criminals go unscathed and live so long, is beyond me.

[lunatica]

28. The architect of the other 9/11 in Chile

A man who's actions are still bearing consequences and reverberating throughout the world today.

[baldguy]

5. Kissinger isn't dangerous all by himself.

He needs the entire military-industrial complex to engage in mass murder.

[DeSwiss]

6. K&R

[LiberalFighter]

7. I hope TSA agent(s) doing the pat down was a Republican.

[wordpix]

8. as much as I despise Kissinger, this is absurd---an old man in a wheelchair

Can't TSA distinguish between someone who might be a danger on an airplane and an old man who can't walk?

Geesh! Kissinger is about 100 yr. old by now.

[harun]

16. Are you "but they were in a wheel chair" people for real? More places to hide things,

if you want to smuggle you want to look weak, not strong and the danger isn't the 100 year old in the wheel chair it is in the 22 yr trained killer pushing the wheel chair on to the plane and is then going to use what is inside it.

Does anybody think before they speak anymore?

[lunatica]

27. I see you're all for the TSA. Should they use the vaginal probe on both sexes you think?

And especially on people who are obviously very old and weak and unable to get around without a wheelchair?

How many terrorists have you heard about who are old? And infirm? And in a wheelchair?

Oh! But I'm sure one will come along any day now and justify your profound fears.

What a jerk.

[boppers]

29. Not being an idiot is not the same as "for the TSA".

If I was going to exploit weakness in US defenses, I would use toddlers or the elderly during screening.

People get irrational about them.

Great way to store a bomb, or bomb materials, with great publicity on every failure.

[lunatica]

30. When was the last time an old person in a wheelchair was caught being a terrorist?

Or a toddler?

Maybe the people doing the exploiting are the TSA with the blessing of people who think like you.

[malthaussen]

33. Dude, people put hand grenades in baby's diapers

... in Vietnam, and probably since. As for the wheelchair, I don't have an example on tap, but it would be a very effective tactic to put an explosive in the chair, or on the person inhabiting it. I oppose TSA, but if we're going to grant the premise that they should exist and search for explosives, then the procedures they use are not unreasonable.

-- Mal

[Hassin Bin Sober]

35. Usually airport wheelchairs are airport equipment operated by airport employees.

I would bet that is the case here since Kissinger can actually walk. Being elderly and infirm, he probably just uses it in airports etc.

[malthaussen]

36. Doesn't preclude some baroque plot to mine the chair

I mean, haven't you ever read any of Robert Ludlum's books? And even if we stipulate the chair could not be mined, that doesn't preclude the inmate being wired.

The problem with security is that there is no end to human ingenuity -- and perversity. One wouldn't expect, for example, that a group of POWs could take the tires off a 3/4 tonne truck in the middle of a prison courtyard in full view of half-a-dozen guards, but you can read all about how it was done in The Colditz Story.

-- Mal

[uppityperson]

40. I don't think an old person in a wheelchair CAN be a toddler. Indeed, next thing they'll start x-ray

x-raying carryons. The horror!

Carry-ons need to be x-rayed, yet this metal chair can simply pass through unsearched?

[boppers]

46. About a year or two ago.

Try to keep up...

You might as well have asked "hey, why don't they allow box cutters on planes! The blades are tiny!"

[FailureToCommunicate]

37. Perhaps you don't fly much? One doesn't push grandpa in his wheelchair onto the plane...

...the farthest you might get is to the end of the skyway before having to transfer to the airline's narrow aisle chair to your seat. You, your grandpa and his chair would have been scanned and checked and the chair, if it's his, goes elsewhere.

My old mother was thoroughly frisked and her power chair taken mostly apart before she got thru security at different times. She didn't ever seem the terrorist type to me - I'm her son and may have been biased - but the TSA folks clearly didn't want to take any chances on this elderly disabled grandma.


I am no fan of the TSA. I think it is expensive security theatre. Another time my wife and I were detained for nearly 30 minutes -and nearly missed our flight- because they "found" a pair of blunt plastic child scissors in the art travel kit we had along (traveling with two little kids)

On the other hand, I lost two good friends "that day". And I had traveled several times thru the Portland airport (pre 9/11) "security" where Mohammed Atta had slipped past. So we clearly needed some better system...

[Ken Burch]

19. In all liklihood, Kissinger's wheelchair

is made from the bones of Chilean folksingers, Cambodian children, and Vietnamese grandmothers.

[obamanut2012]

31. hahaha

[Ken Burch]

38. meant to be more bitter than funny, but thanks for getting it anyway.

n/t.

[unkachuck]

9. "...None of the agents seemed to know who he was."

....how soon we forget....what, no body cavity search?....an old Jewish man in a wheelchair would make the perfect cover for a suicide bomber....

....trust no one, suspect everyone, we can't be too safe!

[crunch60]

14. Yes, who knows, he might have wanted a last hurrah, go out with a bang so

to speak, had a grenade in his Jockey undies.

[Ken Burch]

20. That wasn't a grenade...he was just happy to see them.

[waddirum]

41. more like a colostomy bag

(sorry... no offense to anyone who has this condition)

[pnwmom]

10. Good. n/t

[Mnemosyne]

11. War criminal. nt

[Javaman]

32. +1 nt

[Mnemosyne]

47. Nobel winner? Guess anyone can 'win'. nt

[Robb]

15. Like most, I expect, my feelings on this are mixed.

I don't want TSA humiliating anyone. But it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[cheriemedium59]

21. Kissinger in an elevator

I remember an audience member on Jay Leno once said he was on an elevator with Kissinger and said "Good afternoon Mr. Kissinger" and he snapped back "That's Dr.Kissinger to you!" I have never forgotten that story. I guess what that say about Karma is true..

[SomeGuyInEagan]

42. There is no Karma ...

If there were, a fuck like Kissinger would've been struck by lightning long ago.

[Rhiannon12866]

23. Not a job I would want...

I kinda feel sorry for them.

[Adsos Letter]

24. Ew.

[LeftyMom]

25. The searches are a lot worse in prison, where he belongs.

[FailureToCommunicate]

44. +1!

[Ash_F]

26. He dedicated his life to exercising control over people

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I wonder what he thought of this.

[malthaussen]

34. Not being recognized probably hurt him more

... than the search did. Sic transit gloria mundi, and Tuesday's not much better, Henry.

-- Mal

[Beacool]

39. No Kissinger fan here, but come on?????

Did they honestly think that a former SOS needed a full body pat-down????

Ridiculous.......

[Woody Woodpecker]

43. Nobel has to revoke the Peace Prize on Kissinger.

Effective immediately.

[CreekDog]

45. It is morally acceptable to like schaudenfraude while decrying TSA techniques

well, probably not.

but most people here are probably grinning about this one.