Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
Technically, this wasn't a case decided against TSA; TSA wasn't a plaintiff or defendant in the case. (Yeah, yeah, the case would've never happened without TSA, but that's another discussion.) So the lawyers who weighed in on this statement (and you can bet there were a bunch) probably gave it the OK to proceed on that basis.
Would it at least be fair technically to describe the TSA as the initial complainant? This parsing (not yours as much as that displayed in the TSA blog post) reminds me of my days as a high school principal when Party A, after egging on Parties B and C to fight, then claimed innocent bystander status. I wouldn't let Party A get away with it.
The TSA
owns this embarrassment, unless they think they can dump it on the ABQ PD, notwithstanding the metaphorical kisses blown at the end of the post.