Originally Posted by
InkUnderNails
Originally Posted by
cbn42
The status of the person performing the search has nothing to do with it.
Also clearly wrong. Only certain people can perform administrative searches under specific defined conditions. The status or job of the person conducting the search is definitely relevant.
I
think the point CBN was making is that being an LEO, absent any other factor, doesn't automatically preclude you from conducting an administrative search.
And, in the silly case that TSAs arms itself, there is no doubt that they will continue administrative searches, only with added threat of force and greater pretense of
arrest and detainment authority*. I will, at least, see this as a very different thing, Constitutionally.
* - the next thing they will want