Originally Posted by
eyecue
This is one of those cases where photographing the screening process in detail is not allowed. You can take pictures of the checkpoint but if you get close to the methods and means that are used and you capture them, that is not allowed. You are going to be asking to film three people: (the passenger, the TSA officer and the TSA officer witness.) So for you to consent is fine, the other two wont and if they could it would not matter because filming or taping the process could lead to revealing techniques and other things that could lead to exploitation of the process. In other words (and this makes people on here scream) it is SSI. Therefore it is against Federal law.
Something being SSI does not make it against federal law to document. The mere fact that this procedure is performed on a passenger breaks the SSI barrier - that passenger is free to communicate anything and everything about their experience and neither the TSA or any other federal agency can say jackspit about it.
Plus, just to be the ........ that I feel like being tonight, allow me to quote something stated here by
eyecue merely for highlighting purposes:
Originally Posted by
eyecue
the TSA officer and the TSA officer witness
So much for the assertion made by several of our TSA employee posters that "no TSO" will ever perform this procedure...