I appreciate your presence on this forum, but it is very frustrating to ask "how does TSA make 1+1=3" and to get a reply of "we have a special method of dividing by 0, but that's SSI, need to know, so you'll just have to take our word for it that we can divide by 0 to make 1+1=3".
I understand your position 100%, I am on the other end of the frustration spectrum - I know the answers and some of the reasoning behind them, but am not allowed to distribute said information. We are very limited in what we can say, and I have to stick to things that the organization has published officially - which makes it very difficult to even render opinions about some things.
Of course, I am not the best with numbers, so 1+1 may indeed equal 3, and I have a scientist friend that says 1+1=3 all the time, it just depends on whether you are willing to mix substances and measurement standards.
Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
Not asking about procedures or resolutions, just in your opinion how does screening item "A" make sense when item "B" alarmed. What TSA did in the case of this thread was a power play and abusive, not security.
I believe in the case of SSI material the term "covered person" is the correct words. Don't try mixing real security clearance terms when discussing no security clearance required SSI.
In this case, asking for an opinion is asking me to provide some of the reasoning behind why TSA would do a specific type of screening in a given situation - which is describing SOP.
In all security systems, there are numerous descriptors used depending upon what you are reading/hearing. Every class I have ever taken about SSI and SECRET (when I had it) described the situation the exact same way - the information is only allowed to be distributed to a person that is "covered",
and that has a need to know in order to perform their job function. Every single class, even back to my military days used the exact same phrasing.
Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
The two situations are not even close to being similar. TSA's mission is narrowly focused, find WEI. That's it. If TSA has an item that has alarmed then determining if there is a concern would open the door for a closer look. Finding evidence of crime is the job of police, which clearly excludes TSA.
Actually they are pretty close to being the same in principle. When something piques your interest at TSA (an alarm) or LEO a violation of law, it warrants further scrutiny.