Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
I'm not sure how that would help them. Indeed if a screener's defense rested on following SOP and the TSA refused to admit SOP, I would think that would invalidate the defense (in a civil action, but not a criminal one).
I would suspect that the TSA would come in and claim that the screener was following SOP, that SOP was SSI, and request that the court dismiss the case as the complaint is only actionable against the agency. I think it would require gross negligence that is patently obvious to be beyond SOP (a screener deliberately ripping a person's clothes off in front of everyone) for the TSA to not make that kind of argument.