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Old Oct 14, 2008 | 9:02 am
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Originally Posted by jamar
And also some BDOs might consider this stuff "odd" (read- enough to take someone in for questioning) when it's perfectly normal. Head off that kind of trouble at the pass, I guess.
BDOs have no power to take someone in for questioning. They are not LEOs and do not have the power of arrest. Once you've passed screening at the checkpoint, there is no legal basis of which I'm aware that compels you to even acknowledge a BDO, much less speak to one.
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