TSA Probing Vitter Incident

[babylonsister]

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TSA Probing Vitter Incident
March 11, 2009 6:40 PM



The Transportation Security Administration is examining Sen. David Vitter's much-reported decision to open the closed gateway door to his plane -- even though he was warned against it by an airline worker.

"We will be reviewing the alleged incident," Lauren Gaches, a TSA spokeswoman, told On Call this evening.

Roll Call first reported that Vitter, a Louisiana Republican known to the wider Washington world for showing up in the phone records of the DC madam, set off the security alarm Thursday when he tried to board a United Airlines flight from Washington Dulles to New Orleans. Vitter arrived at the gate 20 minutes before departure, and having been denied access to the plane, spiraled into what Roll Call called a "timeworn 'do-you-know-who-I-am' tirade" that "grew quite heated." He set off the security alarm when he opened the door, a spy told the paper.

Meanwhile, The New Orleans Times-Picayune has a statement from Vitter: "After being delayed on the Senate floor ensuring a vote on my anti-pay-raise amendment and in a rush to make my flight home for town hall meetings the next day, I accidentally went through a wrong door at the gate. I did have a conversation with an airline employee, but it was certainly not like this silly gossip column made it out to be."

A spokeswoman at the airport authority that runs Dulles Airport told the Times-Picayune that she doubts a police report was filed about the incident, and the airline did not comment on the report.

But Gaches told On Call that TSA can look into the Vitter event even if a police report was not filed.

more...

http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2009/03/tsa_probing_vit.php

[SpiralHawk]

1. "We get to the, ugh, bottom of this messy republicon scandal." - TSA

[malaise]

2. There must be video somewhere...please

please...please...please..please.. :popcorn:

[yourout]

3. If average Joe/Jane had done that they would have been hauled away and charged.

Or at least cited.

[malaise]

4. Not before the/she was tasered n/t

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. Diaper Dave continues to circle the bowl

Please tell me the people of Louisiana are going to toss this asshole.

[SacredCow]

9. I've not met a republican who still supports him...

... and through family and work, I run into a LOT of them. I think he's finished.

[madaboutharry]

6. What bullshit.

He "accidently" went through the wrong door.

It is very demoralizing for the average citizen to be privy to such deferential treatment of certain people. If this were any of us, we would have been taken into custody.

[Bandit]

7. What can TSA do after the fact

They are not a Law enforcement agency. This is no longer aa airport security matter. The Senate ethics committee should look into this, not TSA.

[peacetalksforall]

8. Dear Sen. Vitter, if a Louisiana resident opened an airport door against the

warnings of an airline employee and if this LA resident was jailed and the family appealed to you, would you intervene - based on your experience? WOuld you make some calls to help the family get a release?

[Ghost in the Machine]

10. The words "probe" and "Vitter" should *never* be used in the same sentence together...

Ewwwwww....


Diaper Dave should have resigned a long time ago...

[47of74]

11. Why can't Republican Senators stay out of trouble in our nation's airports?

Why the F can't Republican Senators stay out of trouble in our nation's aiports?!?! First we had Senator Tappy McWidestance and now Diaper Vitter. What the heck's going on here?