Be nice if they could at least stop them from stealing passengers belongings.

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tsa-screeners ... 40124.html
Fliers may have a tough time recovering damages for invasive screenings at U.S. airport security checkpoints, after a federal appeals court on Wednesday said screeners are immune from claims under a federal law governing assaults, false arrests and other abuses.

In a 2-1 vote, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia said Transportation Security Administration (TSA) screeners were not "investigative or law enforcement officers," and were therefore shielded from liability under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA).

The majority said it was "sympathetic" to concerns that its decision would leave fliers with "very limited legal redress" for alleged mistreatment by aggressive or overzealous screeners, which adds to the ordinary stresses of air travel.

"For most people, TSA screenings are an unavoidable feature of flying," but it is "squarely in the realm" of Congress to expand liability for abuses, Circuit Judge Cheryl Ann Krause wrote.

You can never be so certain about that Grandmother in a wheelchair. She might be hiding an Uzi in her diaper.

Will they change their tune if a TSA agent gets the shit kicked out of them? Will they claim you assaulted a law enforcement officer?

Just site this case in your defense that they are not law enforcement.

Judge was appointed by Obummer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheryl_Ann_Krause

It figures.

I see this one getting overturned on the next level up.
What happened to accountability?
Most TSA people are fairly good but there are a lot of idiots and jerks working there as well.

Most are former local airport workers who TSA hired after 911.
SFO tried getting waivers to retain the 40% of their workers that failed basic TSA qualifications.
Warrants, felony convictions, illegal aliens, etc.
One employee was wanted for murder.

Deese nutz.

They questioned my radio (2 way) but didn't care/see the flashlight with crenulated bezel whose intent is to bash in a skull, enough Li-Ion batteries to cause a nice hole in the side of the plane, or the BIC pen that was whittled down to a 3 prong shank.... On a one way ticket that was booked just days before...

Before TSA when the airports did their own security a lady in HI wouldn't let me bring my brass belt buckle into the plane because it looked like a gun.
I told the lady I had a small aerial flare in my pocket and asked if I needed to check that too.
She looked at me like I was retarded and said "No, why couldn't you bring that on a plane???"