TSA Agent Questions Passenger Over Status Of D.C.'s Statehood

[Tx4obama]

TSA Agent Questions Passenger Over Status Of D.C.'s Statehood

Plenty of things can trigger a slowdown in the security line at an airport. Whoever thought the status of Washington, D.C.'s statehood would be one of them?

This, after traveler (and D.C. resident) Ashley Brandt says she was delayed at the Phoenix airport last week after presenting a TSA agent with her D.C. license to confirm her identity. As the TSA requests a "state-issued photo ID," and Washington D.C. isn't a state but a federal district, Brandt says she was subject to extra inquiry.

In a recollection of the incident to the Washington Post, Brandt says the agent looked at her ID, shook her head, and said, “I don't know if we can accept these ... Do you have a U.S. passport?"

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In the midst of the incident, Brandt's boyfriend, who was with her at the time, tweeted, "Holy. S**t. TSA @ PHX asked for gf's passport because her valid DC license deemed invalid b/c 'DC not a state'."

The tweet went viral, prompting D.C.'s House delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton to author a letter to the TSA calling for "corrective action." But in all fairness to the TSA, as Mother Jones notes, the matter was cleared up pretty quickly.

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/28/tsa-drivers-license-airport-security_n_4874581.html

[dballance]

2. Can you imagine how they'd react

To a license/ID from Puerto Rico?

[customerserviceguy]

3. Well, yeah

Like, that's a foreign country, right?

Dumbshit jackbooted thugs.

[Jenoch]

4. The TSA in Phoenix once almost confiscated

the Congressional Medal of Honor of retired General Joe Foss because they did not know what it was and thought it could be used as a weapon.

They also confiscated an unopened jar of peanut butter and tube of toothpaste from me.

[Brigid]

5. You mean to tell me . . .

The TSA had never seen DC driver's license before?