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Old Aug 4, 2011 | 2:44 pm
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Originally Posted by FlyingUnderTheRadar
The lawyer did not but even if they did I doubt it would have gotten very far as the appeal courts tend not to question technical aspects as they are looking at procedural aspects. Besides there really is such thing as sheet explosives.
Sheet explosives are a poor excuse to examine paper (including photo paper) content for images and/or copy (writing/type). ETD swabbing is a less intrusive means that can be used to rule out a variety of explosives without the TSA hiding behind a claim about "sheet explosives" concern resulting in TSA examination of paper content for images and/or writing/type.
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