"VS" wrote in message
news:e9p7qb$65b$1@xenon.Stanford.EDU...
> In article <1153441941.622068.296160@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> oconnell@slr.orl.lmco.com wrote:
>
> >>>What authority is the TSA authorized to delegate to another entity?
> >>
> >>Ask TSA.
> >
> >You CAN'T that's the whole point.
>
> Complete and utter bullshit, pardon my French. You can send a
> letter to the TSA, or an email, or even call them up on the phone.
> What you cannot do is grab any TSA agent you encounter at the airport
> and expect that he will engage you in an exploration of the basis for
> the relationship between various security agencies.
>
> >>In any case, the authority of airport ID checkers is not
> >>delegated down from the TSA. They work for the airport, not the TSA,
> >>and are ``authorized'' in the sense of being permitted to operate at
> >>the entrance to the TSA checkpoints.
> >
> >However, if you question them, the next person you'll be talking to
> >is someone from the TSA. And this is the point. Despite them
> >operating under the cover of airline authority, they are exercising
> >the authority of the TSA.
>
> You are now being intentional obtuse and avoiding the point.
> ID checkers are not exercising the authority of the TSA, but the
> TSA will intervene when someone refuses to comply with the security
> procedures. If you refuse to be carded at a liquor store, make a
> scene and the cashier calls the cops on you, he is not exercising the
> authority of the police department.
>
But if he says he works for the 'cops', and doesn't, can't he be charged
with impersonating a police officer?
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