Originally Posted by
kochleffel
Boehner isn't the Speaker yet.
Presidential/VP candidates and the president- and VP-elect receive Secret Service protection. It wouldn't be a stretch to assume that speaker-elect Boehner would receive at least as much protection as Sarah Palin and Joe Biden got during the election season.
Originally Posted by
Wollstonecraft
I don't see how going through a full-body scanner or getting an enhanced pat-down would threaten his personal safety. By TSA's logic, it would in fact make him safer, as these procedures do for the rest of us.
It's more that if there is a plot or attack on the US, he would be the #3 assassination target.
And if you don't understand how an enhanced pat-down would threaten his personal safety, you haven't been reading this forum enough.
TSA and logic really don't belong in the same sentence unless "lack of" precedes logic.
But it does raise an interesting point: how does TSA decide who gets to skip security? If the pilot of the plane is suspect...