Originally Posted by
gsoltso
Stroud (according to the testimony and articles I have read) was wrong. The search is supposed to be for threat or possible threat items. Only if you find something in the course of trying to clear the threat do you move up the chain to the STSO.
However, how many of your fellow screeners think the way Stroud did - that they are supposed to search for anything and everything? You have to admit that a lot of your screeners are not too terribly swift upstairs and in all likelihood can't discern procedure as it is supposed to be vs. what they think it is (or would like it to be).