Originally Posted by
thegeneral
So if the TSA staff have a serious suspicion that someone is doing something wrong they should no means at all to do anything else? That's essentially what you're saying. Either everyone gets that level of screening or nobody does. I'm not sure you'd like the latent consequences of that.
Assigning a passenger to SSSS status because of a weather re-booking has nothing to do with whether TSA screeners suspect a passenger of wrongdoing or ill intent. The fact that screeners in STL asked FlyingHoustonian why so many SSSS passengers were coming through the checkpoint illustrates that the screeners did not have a reason to suspect those passengers.