Re: Filming TSA procedures.
Most airport security services do not allow filming of procedures. Years ago, transiting through Germany, an elderly man in our group with a back brace ended up semi-stripping to comply with security. Another in the group thought it was funny and snapped a few pics of Uncle H being frisked. The German security types jumped all over her. As I recall, they took her film.
The concern is legitimate: There is no reason the bad guys should be able to document and study security procedures at their leisure.
This is in no way to excuse the patently ridiculous, brain dead, offensive practices of the TSA.
And what happens when the government thugs are the bad guys? Should their actions not be documented for all to see?
The United States is still a free society, barely. We have these freedoms because we are able to keep our government's actions open to the public. Anti-recording laws, which violate the first amendment of the constitution, serve only to hide the actions of our rogue government agents.
We must continue to peel back the shroud that hides their actions from us.
Document and study?
There is nothing to document and study!
The L3 Communications scanners or similar are nearly universal around the world.
Swabbing for residue is also common throughout the world.
Pat downs are not something that needs study.
If a million people need to strip because somewhere, someone *might* have some explosive device surgically implanted into their bodies then we have lost the war.