{"id":44340,"date":"2009-11-18T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091118\/1156366993.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-18T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T23:00:00","slug":"its-the-tsa-not-csi-actions-limited-to-security-not-crime-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/44340","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The TSA, Not CSI: Actions Limited To Security, Not Crime Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m actually writing this post just minutes after passing through TSA security at JFK, where I was stopped to investigate the fact that I have a candle (a gift) in my carry-on luggage.  I&#8217;m not sure if this sort of thing makes us any safer (I have my doubts about this kind of &#8220;security theater&#8221;), but the overall experience was fine and the TSA folks were perfectly nice and professional and let me go on my way (yes, with the candle) in less than a minute.  However, apparently some TSA agents have decided that they should serve a purpose well beyond their assigned domain of air travel security.  They&#8217;ve been investigating other crimes as well, sometimes going on pure fishing expeditions if they think something looks suspicious, even if it has nothing to do with air travel safety.  For example, people have been detained for traveling with large quantities of cash.  However, after being sued multiple times, the TSA recently agreed to <a href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/blog\/index.php?blog=1&#038;title=fourth_amendment_news_6&#038;more=1&#038;c=1&#038;tb=1&#038;pb=1\" >change its rules to limit its agents actions<\/a>, so that they are no longer allowed to investigate random crimes and are officially limited to just focusing on air travel security.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091118\/1156366993.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091118\/1156366993.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20091118\/1156366993&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=0b51aab90c7409ee4af20afa32c624cd&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=0b51aab90c7409ee4af20afa32c624cd&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=b_7tOMjpbkA:AxHRuIHXxk4:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=b_7tOMjpbkA:AxHRuIHXxk4:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=b_7tOMjpbkA:AxHRuIHXxk4:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/b_7tOMjpbkA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m actually writing this post just minutes after passing through TSA security at JFK, where I was stopped to investigate the fact that I have a candle (a gift) in my carry-on luggage. I&#8217;m not sure if this sort of thing makes us any safer (I have my doubts about this kind of &#8220;security theater&#8221;), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}