The TSA learns about the Constitution

Somebody at the Transportation Security Administration read the U.S. Constitution and found Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The TSA issued a new directive: “Screening may not be conducted to detect evidence of crimes unrelated to transportation security.” Then it reminded screeners that “traveling with large amounts of currency is not illegal.”
The TSA’s enlightenment was aided by a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union after a member of a political organization passed a metal box containing cash donations through a security checkpoint at Lambert Airport in St. Louis. He was taken to a small room where he was detained, interrogated and told he was under arrest. His “crime” was that he politely asked the agents to explain the scope of their authority.
The ACLU said its concern was that “TSA interpreted its limited authority to safeguard air travel as a license to conduct unlimited law enforcement searches for which TSA agents are not trained and which distracted from the agency’s critical mission of ensuring flight safety.”
With the new directives, the ACLU is dropping the lawsuit. Score one for the Constitution.