Originally Posted by
PTravel
This is what I've been saying right along. I think there is a significant constitutionality issue with gate searches, particularly when they involve a pat-down.
There have, however, been prosecutions based on discovery of non-security-related contraband in the course of a WTMD screening search.
I agree and have had these concerns for some time about gate searches and, to a lesser degree, secondary searches when the technology such as ETD is out there but not being deployed and/or used.
As for your second paragraph, I do know about those cases. What would be interesting is a case in which the secondary search was solely based on being "random."