Originally Posted by LuvAirFrance

My impression, accurate or not, is that they have the power to clear a person to fly or not. If a person balks at a strip search and TSA says "agree or don't fly", it seems that they've exercised all their power. Obviously, they cannot deprive a person of liberty or property without due process of law, but I'm inferring that refusing to clear a person to fly is not depriving them of liberty. Or at least until a binding court decision is made somewhere that it is.