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Old Jan 12, 2010 | 6:30 am
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Originally Posted by TSORon
So, to take your analogy a bit further, if a citizen see’s someone tossing a flaming object into a trash can then he has no authority to detain the individual, because he is not a fireman or a police officer? Or lets say an Air Traffic Controller see’s someone who may be steeling something in a shop at the airport. He cannot contact law enforcement because he has no authority to do so?

Sorry, your logic fails pretty quickly.
There is a major difference with your analogy. In your analogy, the person is seeing items without the need for an administrative search. For a TSO, the only reason he is seeing the currency, drugs, etc. is because of an exception to the Fourth Amendment.

"Sorry, your logic fails pretty quickly."
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