List of exemptions
Members of Congress: Congressional leaders traveling with a
security detail (the speaker of the House, the House minority leader,
the Senate majority leader, etc.) are allowed to bypass security
checkpoints when flying on commercial jets, according to the TSA. All
other members of Congress are expected to stand in line and wait.
So the TSA was within their SOP to hold him until the matter was resolved. There had been cases..especially at LAX when a passenger set off the alarm at the security checkpoint and was inside the terminal on their way to the boarding gate. The terminal had to be shut down, causing shambolic chaos. So it would be case of dammed if you do or dammed if you don't for the TSA.
Edit just found something interesting...TSA is rolling out a pilot program called precheck...
http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/participation.shtm
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
Members of Congress: Congressional leaders traveling with a
security detail (the speaker of the House, the House minority leader,
the Senate majority leader, etc.) are allowed to bypass security
checkpoints when flying on commercial jets, according to the TSA. All
other members of Congress are expected to stand in line and wait.
So the TSA was within their SOP to hold him until the matter was resolved. There had been cases..especially at LAX when a passenger set off the alarm at the security checkpoint and was inside the terminal on their way to the boarding gate. The terminal had to be shut down, causing shambolic chaos. So it would be case of dammed if you do or dammed if you don't for the TSA.
Edit just found something interesting...TSA is rolling out a pilot program called precheck...
http://www.tsa.gov/what_we_do/participation.shtm
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell