In a move that looks suspiciously like retribution, the Transportation Security Administration slapped American Eagle with an investigation alleging "multiple security violations" at Chicago. The investigation, which could result in $175,000 in fines, was launched a day after American Eagle...
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That\'s part of the government, which, by definition, is accountable to no one and above all law.
Passenger inconvenience and safety of flight are not the points of such inspections: the point is to find infractions, real, imagined -- or manufactured, and thus to justify the agency\'s existence.
Further, as the article points out, even questioning the activities of incompetent or malicious agents can generate further scrutiny and fines.