US sorry for Indian envoy's pat-down, but says went by the book - Times of India

WASHINGTON: American security minders on Thursday insisted that US airport personnel went "by the book" in the "pat down" incident involving Indian ambassador Meera Shankar even as administration mandarins reportedly offered a qualified regret and promised a review of the matter.

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Amid in a media-generated hysteria in India over the incident, top officials of the Obama administration weighed in on the issue, pointedly defending the screening procedures and suggesting the Indian reaction to the incident was overwrought. Amid in a media-generated hysteria in India over the incident, top officials of the Obama administration weighed in on the issue, pointedly defending the screening procedures and suggesting the Indian reaction to the incident was overwrought. "We obviously are concerned about it. We will be looking into it and trying to determine both what happened and what we could do to prevent such incidents in the future," Secretary of state Hillary Clinton said, when asked about the incident on the sidelines of a media appearance with her Nigerian counterpart.

US sorry for Indian envoy's pat-down, but says went by the book - Times of India