Originally Posted by
TamCaP
However, it's another interesting thing to try. On what basis can they forbid you from recording the private pat-down? currently the TSA website states that all recording is fine except for security monitors.
Technically, they don't ban the recording of monitors. They just ask you not to..
While TSA does not prohibit the public, passengers or press from photographing, videotaping, or filming at screening locations, TSA may ask a photographer to stop if they are interfering with the screening process or taking photos of X-ray monitor screens in a checkpoint.