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Originally Posted by Aquila
First question...what security directives were in place at the time? They may have been looking for a network of individuals to try to carry cash through. These guys may have just sold a small armory of weapons to a domestic terror cell. Or they might be on their way to some place to fund some militant cause (Ireland, Palastine, Kosovo, you name it).
Terror's lifeblood isn't weapons...it's money. We have more efforts in place to follow money than weapons. This is common sense. What if he were part of a network up to no good and they just let him and two dozen others carrying cash like this breeze on through? This is bigger than this complaining little nitwit. What if this network got the money to where it was supposed to go...bombs were bought with it...and an Israeli or American school was blown up? Then security records would show that two dozen of these folks were tracked through that airport with cash on them and no one said a word.
I see your concern Ferd...but it didn't hurt to stop this guy and verify that he wasn't a threat and that others weren't going through with cash like this also.
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Bro, this is real simple. if that were the case, they take the guy, the run a background and they let the guy go.
nothing wrong with that if the scenario you are suggesting were the case.
what we know is that was not the case. TSA simply held him because he had some money on him that was out of line with what others generally had on hand.
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