Originally Posted by
HSVTSO Dean
Because:
Have you ever stopped to consider that it's not exactly the big warrantless dragnet that it's made out to be? There's actually very little outside of the scope of weapons, explosives, and incendiaries that we are supposed to report to the authorities (especially in the scope of working in checked baggage screening). Unpaid parking tickets aren't it. Pirated DVDs aren't it.
And yet - to return to the original topic of this thread - it appears that reporting large sums of cash is within the scope of screeners' duties. This despite the fact that carrying large sums of cash domestically is perfectly legal; and carrying large sums internationally is also legal, provided the proper paperwork is done.
As long as TSA policy required screeners to report
perfectly legal activity to LEOs the screening process
is exactly a big warrantless dragnet.