Some good news for the week: TSA acknowledges lack of authority
Thanks to Steve Bierfeldt’s courageous stand in Missouri several months ago (and in the face of an ACLU lawsuit), the TSA now has to abide by two newly declared rules:
The new rules, issued in September and October, tell officers “screening may not be conducted to detect evidence of crimes unrelated to transportation security” and that large amounts of cash don’t qualify as suspicious for purposes of safety….
Even though the congress and the office of president continue to treat the Constitution as “not a serious” document, it’s good to see that some part of the federal bureaucracy thinks that the Constitution is worth the paper it’s written on.
Too bad it had to take a lot of bad publicity and a lawsuit to goad them into taking this official position, but, hey, it’s TSA. I’ll take whatever improvements I can get.