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RE: After 2.5 hours the TSA let him go.

Did he miss his flight?

No. He was arriving from an international flight, Paris to Cincinatti. TSA screens people ARRIVING from an international flight. Go figure.

TSA screens international connecting passengers because not all countries screen like the U.S. and those passengers have had access to their luggage. There are plenty of things that you can bring in your luggage that you can't bring on an airplane, like big boy tubes of toothpaste. TSA doesn't want you to access that while clearing your luggage at Customs, and then get on a connecting flight. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I used to travel internationally with guns and ammo to do some competitive shooting. Can't remember how they did it then, but that would be an obvious reason to be rescreened.

The person in question was an international arrival at Cincinnati that was not connecting. Evidently the international arrivals at Cincinnati come into Concourse B of Terminal 3. In order to get from Concourse B to the "curb" you have to pass through Terminal 3, a secure area.

This wasn't some huge victory for Civil Rights, they just escorted him out of the secure area. The screening of non-connecting passengers at that airport is a function of airport layout and not some special harassment scheme.

I was under the impression he didn’t.