Alaska Rep. Cissna taking ferry home after refusing TSA search

According to The Associated Press (via the Seattle Post-Intelligencer), Alaska lawmaker Rep. Sharon Cissna, D-Anchorage, has to take the long way back to Juneau after a medical appointment in Seattle for refusing a pat-down search at the hands of Sea-Tac Transportation Safety Administration workers. When full-body scanners detected that the representative had had a mastectomy, TSA flagged her for an additional pat-down search, according to Cissna's chief of staff. When Rep. Cissna refused the second, "intrusive" search, she was not permitted through security. She booked ferry passage instead and is currently somewhere between Seattle and Juneau. Read more, here.