One law for them, another for us, apparently.

Umm…where have you been the last several thousand years?

Try this: plant a suspicious white powder in the bag of another passenger, and then after they are caught let you a big laugh about what a funny joke it was. Now, do you sleep in your bed that night, or are you wearing an orange jumpsuit? If the latter, it’s a double standard.

the officer — whose name has been redacted from the TSA memo

I wonder if they tried copying and pasting the text under the black bars in the PDF. Government agencies are notoriously bad at redacting sensitive documents.

There actually is some security going on but a lot of it is theater.

I’m waiting for someone to get arrested for child porn. I’ve watched bored TSA employees look through cameras and laptops. Not the TSA that you see going in, but the ones who look through suitcases. The same ones who sometimes get caught stealing drugs, money, jewelery and other random stuff. Eventually someone is going to find child porn and call the cops. Just like the officer who confiscated the cash box of political donations. Then we’ll watch a public case of the 4th Amendment in action and people can hate the ACLU even more for defending a child pornographer.

For example, do they have to verify that you have prescriptions if they find pills when searching your bags?

In the case of Phoenix police officer Richard Chrisman, that might be shooting and killing an unarmed suspect.

Don’t ask how I know that.

Everyone else – THERES A BOMB IN THE TERMINAL! Just kidding! I get thrown in jail and treated like a 2nd class citizen.

Glad I only visit the country once a decade..

The Smoking Gun post says that he was “canned for falsely claiming to have discovered cocaine in the luggage of travelers”, and the supporting documents show that one fellow TSA worker reported him to his supervisor. In addition, 3 passenger statements were taken, so it seems like in this case the system took care of its bad apple.