Very well. I'll hold my breath until tonight.

To be clear, I'm not advocating that the actions of the officers were correct. My only main assertions are:

1). The outbound border search is legal.
2). There is factual dispute over what actually happened. I won't accept the original story as gospel truth.

That said, I do want to make one more point in response to law dawg's post. There have been plenty of times that I've talked to/searched/etc someone based on intelligence and then told them that it was a random check. I concur that it sounds like a targeted enforcement operation and not a random compliance check. But I don't blame the agency for not wanting to give up the details, either.