Originally Posted by
saizai
These are questions of opinion, which are mostly useless to ask. They'll just give an evasive lawyerly answer.
Also FWIW, my ability to ask questions (25 interrogatories & 10 depositions) is much more limited than my ability to ask them to admit or deny a specific statement, or to ask for production of documents (both of which are unlimited [in quantity; they still have to be reasonably proportionate, relevant or likely to lead to something relevant, etc]). So I have to be much more conservative with how I use the former.
However, I can ask for e.g. records of any liquids related hazmat or bomb squad calls. Or maybe RFPs & specs for checkpoint trash cans…
Again, this is hard for me to use, except against the specific people involved in my incident (because it gets to their subjective state of mind and mens rea).
Perhaps there are policy documents discussing the appropriate way to dispose of "surrendered" liquids, and security justifications for those policies…
I disagree. TSA has a policy that LGA's greater than 100 ml are not allowed yet dispose of those items at the checkpoint and at some later time in normal refuse disposal systems. If TSA is only allowed to interdict WEI then under what authority can TSA prohibit non-WEI items. If the claim is that these items are potential WEI then reasonableness would dictate that they be treated as such.