I'm guessing you were voted down[1] because the Supreme Court recognizes administrative searches as not being Constitutionally prohibited. However, top officia

I'm guessing you were voted down[1] because the Supreme Court recognizes administrative searches as not being Constitutionally prohibited. However, top officials—including Mr. Pistole at the TSA who, as FBI Deputy Director swore to protect the Constitution—have started referring to the new pat-down procedures as "Law Enforcement Pat-downs" and "Law Enforcement-Style Pat-Downs", and it is clear from descriptions that these are, in fact, akin to pat-downs given to arrestees. TSA employees are not law enforcement, but these extreme personal searches have no doubt led to law enforcement action when they detect non-threatening contraband (weed), which the TSA has been using to prove it _would_ be effective against threatening contraband (semtex underwear, although the GAO questions this). Maybe, in that case, there is a Constitutional problem with the new searches, whether they are called administrative, or not. [1] edit: parent was at -1 when I wrote this.