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Old May 1, 2009 | 1:53 pm
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Originally Posted by Bart
Travel document checking is a part of checkpoint screening. Always has been. So I don't know how you can consider it mission creep.
A government agency taking over a function that was performed by a private entity is mission creep.

Originally Posted by Bart
So, a young lady passes a note to a TSO pleading for help and/or getting the cops. But, it's not on the prohibited items list, eh?
How is that a product of an administrative search? It's not even an illegal item.

Originally Posted by Bart
US currency is not on the TSA prohibited items list; it is not illegal contraband; it is not a primary trigger for a property search by a TSO. I can't make it any plainer than that.
It is contraband according to the TSA Directive. Since I am not aware of any contraband that is legal, "I can't make it any plainer than that."
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