A good result yielded from a bad process does not mean we should praise the process. The role of the TSA screener must be focused only on preventing the introduction of restricted items onto aircraft or sterile areas of the airport. Period. It should not be widened to include searches for drugs, cash, illegal aliens, wanted felons, etc...we do not want out airports turned into virtual borders.

It's great to catch bank robbers - but it's not acceptable to me to give up any freedoms, privacy or accept government monitoring in order to make it easier to catch bank robbers. That's really how our Founding Fathers designed our society to work - sometimes it has to be accepted that some bank robbers (or murders, rapists, etc.) will get away with their crime because it's more important to protect the integrity of our system and the freedoms of our way of life than use any means necessary to catch every criminal.

If the screener heard a public police bulletin and recognized the wanted person and reported them as a private citizen, I agree there is nothing wrong with that - it's just good citizenship. As stated in another post, if the screener had no knowledge of the crime and purposely examined the person and their baggage for non-security related suspicious items because they wanted to 'play cop' or claim some reward and just got lucky, that is out of their scope and that behavior must be stopped.