bocastephen

I think we assume that a TSA employee would never use their access to a secure area to sneak a prohibited item or weapon past the checkpoint and give it to an accomplice on the other side....we just assume that would not happen.

In my opinion, if the pax and crew have to remove everything to cross the checkpoint, then the TSA staff should do exactly the same thing - every single time they cross from a non-secure partition to a secure area, and that includes shoes.