Originally Posted by
chollie
Like I said, pretty clever of TSA. They are completely in charge, they call the shots, yet they want to make it sound like private security are a bunch of ham-handed rogues that got out-of-control and this would never happen at a gen-u-wine TSA-branded checkpoint.
Seems to me something similar happened shortly after Blogdad Bob started his piece. SFO was asking pax to take all electronics out - including cords, chargers. TSA 'stepped in' and straightened SFO's private security out and patted themselves on the back for doing so.
Just curious - do you know if the FSD at an airport with private security is a TSA employee? Because if so, it undercuts this bogus story even more, because you can guarantee that the FSD at this airport knew and approved what was going on (or should be fired if s/he didn't know what was going on).
Thinking only of screening paper items, to stay on topic, usually when a contractor is providing a government service, in this case TSA type screening of paper items, the screening group will have its on management staff and down the line personnel. The government will provide contract performance monitors, in this case TSA employees who monitor that contract requirements are being met. To think of a contractor adding additional screening steps for paper items,or any other item, is just silly. Each additional work step is lost profit. Ain't gonna happen.