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WOW, the TSA is not even trying to hide their Junior G-man fantasies.

http://www.tsa.gov/who_we_are/workfo...forcement.shtm

Looking through a couple of the cases even I could get them tossed on constitutional grounds.

http://www.tsa.gov/press/happenings/...te_police.shtm
Why were they reading the credit cards?

http://www.tsa.gov/weekly/021609.shtm#news5

Once again why were they reading the credit cards?

Wonder if the TSA will be disclosing exactly what their threat to aviation was.

If I were these guy's lawyers I would hammer that very question. I would also hammer the point that the TSOs are not trained nor is it their responsibility to determine a stolen credit card.

The party that should be presented with those questions is a Congressional Committee, in tandem with the information about TSA's poor ability to find the items they were hired to do in the first place.

Because we the people, abetted by our elected representatives, let them.

I've asked some friends in TSA Chief Counsel's office for their take on the legality of this kind of search.

To no surprise, they haven't gotten back to me yet. :rolleyes:

What is conspicuously missing from the list of TSA assisted arrests on the TSA web site is the number, location and date of the TSA employees that have been arrested for theft of property, drug smuggling, etc.

He could have filed the edges on the credit cards and given the crew and pax some nasty paper cuts.

Mike

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I'm not surprised that you're amazed; or giggly.

I suppose that there is a one-in-a-million chance a passenger does have one of those razor-edged cards, so a "search" is arguably justified (In This Post 9/11 World, sigh), but you do not have to read what's on them to know they are not a threat to aviation.

Ah sorry, there I go again thinking the TSA should do what it was created to do; and nothing more.

Did I miss the story about Al Qaeda and credit card fraud or the Unabomber and credit card fraud?

I'm sure all the people in jail for credit card fraud would be happy to know they are more likely to take down a plane than people who do not commit CC fraud.

If the link is so obvious Bart, would you care to enlighten us?

emphasis mine: because as Boggie Dog posted over here, "TSA has one aim only, to catch someone doing something even if it does not threaten transportation"

now as to the link you posted (http://www.tsa.gov/who_we_are/workfo...forcement.shtm), how come we don't see things like "alert tsa screener at denver nabs tsa screener trying to bring a gun to work" ;)

Then why don't you enlighten as to why it is done. Having had problems with identity theft no one short of a LEO gets to look in my wallet.

In my experience (limited) if a LEO asks to see ID (DL) they will ask you to remove it and hand it to them if it is in a wallet. Does this apply at checkpoints?
In other words, what gives them any right to paw through a wallet?

Well, maybe the difference is that I never watched McGyver. Credit cards are no more dangerous to aviation than CDs and they are allowed on board.