"Take the case of the hotshot engineer, who decides after the performance review that his employer sucks, and he’s “out-of-here.” He storms out of his review interview and his job, simultaneously. One call might kill all of his access or not. Are all locations immediately updated? Is access to all assets and locales killed immediately? If not, Stormin’ Norman might be damage control looking for a spot marked X.
The TSA is no more entitled to feel up airline passengers than they are to shoot every 200th passenger in the head. The Feds cannot mandate that the TSA break the laws of the states.
Ultimately, this will be a PR battle. Any sheriff would be fully within his right to arrest TSA agents for what they do daily as a condition of their job. If the states wanted to force a change in TSA policy, all they would have to do is have the governor whisper into a sheriff's ear and, after a few TSA agents are arrested at the airport, let the TSA try to bail them out of jail and justify their policy in the court of public opinion. The state would win the PR war and the Feds would look like goons that they are
Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU. -- Mt.