Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
Because in DFW, there are connections between all the terminals airside, so they'd have to dump the entire airport and this clearly didn't rise to the level of needing to do that.
Why not? A passenger managed to enter the sterile area of the airport without having completed screening. Furthermore, the passenger in question had an unidentified item on her person which TSA was concerned enough about to want to search her further. Using TSA logic ... why shouldn't this cause an immediate shutdown of the terminal?