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Old Apr 15, 2009 | 8:54 am
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Originally Posted by HSVTSO Dean
As for inclination, I and the screeners I work with don't generally seem very inclined to do so unless the SOP specifically instructs us to. This whole thing with large amounts of cash is over exactly two sentences in the procedures. It doesn't say anything about $10,000 or anything else; it just states that if we find a large amount of cash money to report it to the STSO. That's it. I had to actually discover the meaning behind it myself, through other information outlets. It actually does say more about drugs, but nothing that hasn't already been told to ya's by Blogger Bob: that while it's not specifically the role of the TSA, we as government entities can not overlook blatantly illegal contraband, blahblahblahblah.

However, that said, that's it. There's nothing in there at all about pornography, nothing in there about pirated DVDs, or, for heaven's sake Phil, animals without all their vaccinations. None of the above are even anything I've remotely cared about, primarily because TSA doesn't care about it either.
I wonder why the TSA SOP concerns itself with certain "blatantly illegal contraband," but not others, especially when one item of contraband under the SOP, cash, is not blatantly illegal.

HSVTSO Dean, I do appreciate you discussing these matters with the rest of us.
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