Originally Posted by
vvortex1
While the TSA can't prosecute you for refusing to answer their questions, they can keep you off the plane.
I don't see where refusing to answer questions, in and of itself, will result in being refused access to the sterile area. Additional, possibly retaliatory, secondary screening perhaps, but once someone and their belongings are screened for weapons, explosives and incendiaries they will be admitted.
Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
If you look at the 1801 or 1802 series, which are the ones the TSA seems to use for SPOTNiks, you will see standard qualifications.
Here it is on the TSA jobs site. Behavior Detection voodoo practitioners need to pass a drug test and read English, so at least we have that going for us.