{"id":4982,"date":"2010-12-10T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/12\/10\/brilliant-move-tsa\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:12:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:12:39","slug":"brilliant-move-tsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4982","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Move, TSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18495,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article_email\\\/SB10001424052748703493504576008443118266076-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwOTEwNDkyWj.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/online.wsj.com\\\/article_email\\\/SB10001424052748703493504576008443118266076-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwOTEwNDkyWj.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>In what can only be described as a brilliant diplomatic move, TSA agents at Jackson-Evers International Airport in Jackson, Mississippi pulled the sari-clad Indian Ambassador to the U.S. out of line for a pat-down. Her Excellency Meera Shankar was in Jackson to deliver a speech at a local university in conjunction with its international studies program.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Meera2520Shankar1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" n4=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Meera2520Shankar1.jpg\" width=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article_email\/SB10001424052748703493504576008443118266076-lMyQjAxMTAwMDAwOTEwNDkyWj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, <\/a>the incident happened this past weekend and the Indian Embassy plans to make a formal complaint to the State Department. The incident is a big story back in India according to reports. The Indians consider the pat-down a breech of diplomatic protocol.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Homeland Security officials said the TSA agents made &#8220;right call when they patted down Ms. Shankar.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There is no word on whether the TSA agents or the DHS officials performed the pat-down in retaliation for being switched to a call center in Mumbai regarding their past due credit card bill.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what can only be described as a brilliant diplomatic move, TSA agents at Jackson-Evers International Airport in Jackson,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4512,763],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-india","tag-tsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6032,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/6032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}