It gets stranger! Notice how this was not released until everyone was watching the vote.

Update:

Atwater was detained at the Fayetteville, N.C., airport on Dec. 24 when security agents found a military smoke grenade in his carry-on bag...The documents don't say whether officials now suspect C-4 may have been in his bag then but was missed during additional screening, or whether the C-4 was found in the same bag as the grenade, although a week later and at a different airport.


After the grenade was confiscated, Atwater was "admonished" and allowed to continue on to Texas...He was stopped at the Midland airport Saturday...A TSA agent spotted a suspicious item in Atwater's carry-on bag during screening, and a police bomb squad identified that as C-4.





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