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TSA to look at Vitter airport incident
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| Contributor | kal |
| Last Edited | kal Mar 15, 2009 08:30am |
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| Category | General |
| Media | TV News - CNN |
| News Date | Sunday, March 15, 2009 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Transportation Security Administration is looking into a report that Louisiana Sen. David Vitter had an angry altercation with an airline worker at Washington Dulles International Airport last week.
The agency is not doing a formal investigation, TSA spokesman Sterling Payne told CNN, but it is gathering information to determine if one is needed.
"We are looking into the reported incident," Payne said.
An aide to Vitter said Friday morning the Republican senator had not been contacted by the TSA and maintains the media account of the incident is overblown.
Roll Call had a report in its gossip column earlier this week, based on an unnamed eyewitness, that Vitter arrived at the airport 20 minutes before his United Airlines flight was scheduled to depart.
The door to the boarding bridge was already closed, but Vitter opened it anyway, triggering an alarm. The paper said an airline worker warned him not to enter the walkway, which led to a "tirade" by Vitter who "remained defiant."
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