[rhizome]

It would be nice if the reporters put some energy into either asking or researching what "standard procedures" are, and then put that into the story so that the reader might be educated about the rules and policies that we all live under.

[petrilli]

You are presuming that the TSA will ever reveal what "standard procedures" are. They're whatever justifies their current behavior, but you can't know, you dirty hippie, because that's national security.

[rhizome]

Sure, but they can ask, and they can say they asked and weren't answered.