Originally Posted by clrankin

This is where a number of restrictions do come in to play... this is why TSOs do not have the ability to detain people. (Doing so as an agent of the government without probable cause-- which TSOs are not trained to detect-- is a flagrant civil rights violation.) I know you've asserted otherwise elsewhere on the forum, but I think that most attorneys would tell you that you're dead wrong. When acting as an agent of the government, there are certain things you can and can't do.