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Jun 23, 2014 | 8:51 am

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Originally Posted by TSAPressSec

We posted this many years ago, and it still stands today.

If we have a concern, will contact law enforcement and/or the National Bulk Cash Smuggling Center for further investigation.

It was wrong then, and it is wrong today. Unfortunately, TSA doesn't feel inclined to follow the law.

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Originally Posted by Blogndog

Why would you refer someone that is carrying their own property to law enforcement?

Because TSA doesn't feel the need to stay in their own lane.

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Originally Posted by Carl Johnson

But if you do that, you're conducting an unconstitutional inquiry that goes beyond the bounds of an administrative search. Why are your clerks doing this? Who instructed them to do it? It isn't as if they have such great enough powers of concentration to look out for cash and explosives at the same time.

A few years after TSA was created, a close friend of mine in the DHS OGC and I were chatting, and the friend had to cut our conversation short with the following apology - "sorry, I have to go over to TSA HQ this afternoon and remind them that there is a document called the Constitution, and that they are required to comply with it."

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