Originally Posted by
gsoltso
What you keep trying to make out is that all TSOs go into a bag looking for drugs or money and anything else that would be "the big catch" and it is just not true. Many of the TSOs would rather go through their entire career without finding anything other than the odd pocket knife or soda (it means that they are safer in general AND they don't have to run the chance of testifying in court!). Some TSOs may say they are doing this, and to those I say - Bad idea, it can get you in trouble.
West, that'd be a LOT easier to buy if TSA weren't touting as successes finding drug mules, people out on arrest warrants, people with large amounts of cash, etc, etc and also didn't offer rewards for finding such (as has been reported in the past). It trumpets these things as Big Catches® as if it were the very things they're looking for. And of course, you have to wonder about the changes to powders, etc, in light of Fofana restricting searches of items after they've been cleared for WEI.
Yeah, I know you state that the screener in Fofana acted incorrectly (as is the case any time a screener gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar). It looks like TSA is throwing these people under the bus for doing what they're supposed to do - the screeners are expendable. And if they are acting on their own and not following procedure correctly, then it shows an endemic problem of poor training because these situations happen all too frequently.