This post links to the TSA’s screening point operations manual. Seems that someone at TSA had the bright idea to post it in a rather weakly redacted manner. We’ll skip over the fact that the entire document itself seems to be marked SSI (that is, Sensitive Security Information – not to be disclosed), and shouldn’t have been posted at all – redacted or otherwise. We’ll go straight to noting that it was redacted using the same pointless method that has been derided since . . . the late 90s? Which means, of course, that we all get to see which passports send you straight to secondary screening, which putative bans aren’t enforced, etc.  In the end, it’s a lot of terribly unsurprising stuff, but the point is that the super duper triple probation secrets that the TSA has be working so hard to keep obscure are all, well, kinda stupid. I think we’d all be better off knowing and understanding these guidelines in the first place.
