Originally Posted by
SATTSO
As I clearly wrote, the TSO/STSO. Depends on who you deal with. Any time a superior takes over the situation (be it LTSO or STSO or TSM or hgher) they make the decision. There have been many people I have cleared through the checkpoint I have sent for additional screening because of the "ID" they have presented, and I'm just a TSO
Will answer your last two responses in this one.
I don't think anyone should have their liberty (freedom to travel) restricted without due process. TSA in fact engages in abuse of freedoms as I understand them. You may disagree but that does not change my opinion.
As far as a low level versus high level employee neither should have the authority to restrict a persons movement unless that person is arrested for a suspected crime.
I have no idea how GS equates to TSA grades, I would consider all the usual TSA employees I encounter at airport checkpoints as low level government employees.
I asked the question of who could decide to NOT send a person for additional screening because that question is very different to who CAN send a person for additional screening, and you did not answer that question.
As an example, you can make certain decisions but for some must refer the decision to higher authority. Sending someone for additional screening may take a lower decision authority than not sending that same person for additional screening. Understand the difference?