DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): There are 2 million tired flyers every day at America's airports. And a lot of them could not believe what they saw today, a raucous at the airport in Nashville, after a US senator set off an alarm and refused a pat down. His father, presidential candidate, called it evidence of a police state. So, was the senator taking a stand for other flyers or just holding up the line? Here's ABC's Jim Avila.
JIM AVILA (ABC NEWS)(VO): Today, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul was one of the 3% of America's fliers stopped for a personal patdown. The scanner at Nashville's airport targeted his leg as suspicious, and he missed his flight after refusing to allow any TSA agent to pat him down there, instead asking to go through the scanner a second time.
SENATOR RAND PAUL (REP) (KENTUCKY): I offered to show them my leg. In fact, I did show them my leg repeatedly. And I said, well can I go back through the scanner? And they said no.
JIM AVILA (ABC NEWS)(VO): Senator Paul's father, Ron, wants the TSA shut down, and today called the incident evidence "the police state in this country is growing out of control." The senator's staff tweeted, "he's currently being detained by TSA." The TSA said he was only escorted out of the security area.
SENATOR RAND PAUL (REP) (KENTUCKY): I was told not to leave a cubicle, and when I did step outside the cubicle, I was sort of surrounded and put back in the cubicle.
JIM AVILA (ABC NEWS)(VO): Detained or not, he returned to the counter for a second ticket to Washington. This time, the machine detected nothing unusual about his leg.
SENATOR RAND PAUL (REP) (KENTUCKY): I think it's an indignity that we're going through this, not making us safer.
JIM AVILA (ABC NEWS)(VO): Some of his fellow passengers were unsympathetic.
PASSENGER (MALE): If I have to go through it, he should have to go through it as well.
JIM AVILA (ABC NEWS)(VO): But here is the big picture. The TSA tells ABC News Senator Paul was treated as everyone else is. Once anyone starts the screening process and the machine alerts screeners to something suspicious, they must submit to targeted pat downs or leave. Security experts say not only would repeat scans hold up the line, they would allow bombers to hide or worse, activate a device.
STEWART BAKER (FORMER DHS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR POLICY): Then you're giving a potential terrorist a second bite at the apple to see if maybe he can get through the second time.
JIM AVILA (ABC NEWS)(VO): And reacting to controversies over patdowns of the very young and older Americans complaining about embarrassing body searches, the government is now allowing children under 12 to keep their shoes on and installing privacy filters on most scanners.
JIM AVILA (ABC NEWS)(OC): But senator or salesman, the TSA says some rules are not about to change. Jim Avila, ABC News, New York.
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