TSA — that touchy, feely government agency — is again finding that different strokes mean different things to different passangers. Indian officials are lodging a complaint ” following an “unacceptable” TSA public pat-down of India’s sari-clad ambassador—despite the fact that she presented diplomatic papers and was escorted to the airport by police,” Newser reports. She was searched in view of everyone at Mississippi’s Jackson-Evers International Airport even though she had asked for a private search. (HEY: we all know how many Ambassadors of countries turned out to be terrorists..)
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.