Originally Posted by red456
Take a copies of the TSA's published procedures with you and wave them in the face of any screener who orders you to do something that deviates from those procedures.
Here's some free advice: Given the dollar figures contained in the link below, I would think long and hard before waving
anything in the face of a TSA employee.
http://www.tsa.gov/interweb/assetlib..._7-15-2004.pdf
Besides, almost none of the published material on the TSA website provides any real limits on the screeners' discretion. Vague and Ambiguous seems to be the rule for the "rules" applying to passengers' contacts with the TSA.