was traveling with my infant during the christmas weekend, and the lines were backed up the wazoo. Flying first on AA and had priority access for travel lanes. The TSA grinch saw me going in the priority lane and said, sorry this is for priority access travelers only, you need to go to the regular lanes. I said, I was priority, but he just pointed to the other lane and said it's for priority travelers and they have it on their boarding pass. I said please look at my boarding pass as it says priority access. and thats one of the perks of flying first class. he said "i'm going to argue with you" and stood blocking the lane.

waited in regular lane and after finished security, saw TSA supervisor, and told him what happened. he said there is no such thing as priority from the airlines and they misslead you, then walked away... I have no idea what he was talking about, as the line is clearly marked with signs as such...

anyway just wondering if they were just being grinches or if there was any TSA policy in place preventing me from going through the (empty) priority lane?

In the future, if there is no policy, anything I can print out or do to prevent this issue from happening again?

TIA.