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Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld getting the full pat-down treatment at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on July 13, 2011. Sources told TMZ that Rumsfeld was all smiles during the body sweep and was "very nice" throughout the procedure. Rumsfeld even tweeted about it: "It takes those of us with two titanium hips and a titanium shoulder a bit longer to get through TSA
Even Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gets the pat-down from TSA. So do babies and grannies and that is part of the reason that the government agency is ready to try a new approach.
Gossip website TMZ published photos of the former Defense Secretary smiling as TSA agents at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago patted him down during normal security precaution on Wednesday.
The frisking of someone as recognizable as Rumsfeld prove that the system does not discriminate, even in favor of the very famous.
Rumsfeld tweeted about it - "It takes those of us with two titanium hips and a titanium shoulder a bit longer to get through TSA," he wrote.
But the agency that has come under criticism for patting down the elderly and infants, and now says it is ready to try a new approach for some passengers.
Today the Transportation Security Administration announced a pilot program which it says will move towards "risk-based, intelligence driven" security screening. TSA Spokesman Greg Soule told ABC News, that this pilot is an effort to "focus more on passengers we know less about, and not focus our resources as much on passengers who are less of a risk. However, there will continue to be an element of randomness and unpredictability."
