Originally Posted by
chollie
(bolding mine): interfering with the screening process.
If you try to discuss with the LEO and it is an airport where the LEOs take direction from TSOs, then you'll probably be told to leave. If you continute to try to discuss the issue, you will be arrested for public disturbance or failing to follow an LEO's orders.
Read up on Phil Mocek.
Then the scary thing is, that if the LEO does take orders from the TSOs, then the the TSA's procedures are completely unaccountable to any standards of legality or constitutionality. The TSO could make up any criteria for satisfying the screening process, and if a passenger does not comply, he is charged with interfering with the process. It seems that no one in Congress is willing to take on the TSA, and therefore the only way to make any headway would be to get arrested and hope for a sympathetic jury, not one composed of the "anything for security" types.