Comment Internet Tough Guy detected. (Score 1) 448
Internet Tough Guy detected.
What you're forgetting is their whole rationale -- the TSA is "just" an agent of the AIRLINES, private entities to whom you submit in order to partake of their services. Ignore the federal regulation of the airlines and the fact that the search guidelines are also federal in nature -- they do.
Just be glad you don't have to submit to backscatter-xray/enthusiastic-groping when you cross state lines in a car.
Yet.