TSA Detained Ron Paul and Wife

If, as expected, Romney is elected and both bodies of the Congress are controlled by Republicans TSA may find it's budget cut three ways; long ,wide, and deep. One might also hear demands for a criminal investigation of the agency which has twice detained the Paul family in the space of 8 months. Senator Rand Paul's detention may be somewhat understandable in that the abuse he suffered is no worse than that routinely inflicted upon countless innocent travelers everyday.The Senator was detained after he refused to submit to a full body pat down.
The assault on Congressman Ron Paul's fourth amendment rights was outrageous, contemptible, and probably illegal. After the convention the Paul family and aides were attempting to depart for Texas aboard a private plane. First TSA agents questioned the pilot's flight credentials. Then agents insisted Paul and the members of his party be searched for explosives. Mrs. Paul who wears a pacemaker refused. Aides to Paul began recording the event and eventually TSA backed down.
It is both shameful and appalling that a retiring Congressman who has served his country and its constitution with an acute awareness of individual freedom and liberty is not be allowed to move about as a free person as is his right under the constitution. Normally passengers on private flights are not searched or harassed which raises the question, why Ron Paul?
Both Congressman Paul and Senator Paul have been harsh critics of TSA and it could be that someone in the agency could not resist the temptation to give Paul a retirement send off. Since the attempted search went beyond standard operation procedures and involved several agents the decision to harass the Congressman came from a TSA superior. Was this decision made at the local level or did the order come down from Washington? If from Washington, then by whom?  Was it a civil service employee or an Obama appointee. One suspect it was made by a political appointee as even in TSA a public servant would know harassing the parents of a sitting senator is not a career enhancing move.
It would be silly to think Obama himself would have the time to think up such an outlandish insult to a political opponent but I would not a priori rule out White House involvement. In fact the more I think about it it seems plausible if not very probable. Chicago thuggery is the signature of the Obama White House. I would expect to hear much more about this when the Republicans control the senate.