Anyone who wants to fly must submit to a full-body scan or a thorough pat-down, the U.S.
Transportation Security Administration head said Tuesday.
TSA Administrator John Pistole told the Senate Homeland Security committee he wants passengers to become "partners" in the work of securing airports and airplanes, The Washington Post reported. He said the agency hopes to be "sensitive to people's feelings about privacy."
But he said those with religious objections to security searches will not get a pass.
"While we respect that person's beliefs, that person's not going to get on an airplane."
The government said Monday it has begun an investigation of the California man who refused to go through a full body scan at the airport in San Diego and posted his encounter with airport security on the Internet. John Tyner, 31, of Oceanside, was singled out Saturday at Lindbergh Field for a full-body scan but opted out because he thought it was invasive, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.