Originally Posted by
janetdoe
So why on earth would they need the ability to search for ID?
It's not because they
need it. It's because they
want it. (Why? Probably so they can post more success stories about finding college kids and petty criminals with fake IDs to make themselves look valuable to the taxpayers. Or because they're just curious.)
And it's because neither Congress nor the court system have stopped TSA - ever - from doing exactly what TSA wants to do. Case in point: TSA implements body scanners; Congress (belatedly) says they should have had a public rulemaking process and demands that they do so; TSA ignores Congress; Congress ignores the fact that TSA has ignored them.
Originally Posted by
janetdoe
I also thought court cases and settlements had strictly limited TSA to the search for WEI.
But none of the those court cases have actually stopped the TSA from overstepping such a limit. They continue with ID checks, and the name game, and the BDO farce, and reading (and
confiscating) passenger's papers, none of which have anything to do with the search for WEI.
They do it because they can, and no one will stop them.
Sigh, indeed.
