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Old Feb 27, 2008 | 12:56 pm
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law dawg
 
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Originally Posted by PatrickHenry1775
TSA employees are government employees, paid by taxpayers, and so they have more obligations to us than private airline employees have. Moreover, as government employees, they have lower expectactions of privacy than private airline employees should have. Finally, we have a choice about airlines to fly (I know, some departure-destination combinations are only served by one airline). However, the national government has made TSA the only security agency at airports. Therefore, people who voluntarily work for TSA should be fair game for being named if they administer retaliatory secondaries.
Don't know where you get this "lower expectations of privacy" stuff. You have a cite? A court precedent?
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