325:(TSA) airport screening device identified her prosthesis for a missing breast. As a result, cancer survivor Cissna was subjected to a particularly humiliating and intrusive body search. Rep. Cissna was faced again with the invasive procedure on February 21, 2011 when being screened in Seattle for a return to Anchorage. She refused to be subjected to such an indignity once more and returned to Alaska by boat and taxicab. Her experience received national publicity, questioning the methods which TSA forces upon those least likely to be security threats. Similarly, Kentucky U.S. Senator
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