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Thank you. You knew. SBECK did not. By the way, that is still not relavent. We all know that eveyrone must be screened. The question was, did the airport over-react. The was SBECK was bluffing, I assumed that there was a section that said "if someone gets by, the airport must be closed down".

Of course everyone must be screened. Who said that they didn't? The issue is, what is the response when someone gets by? SBECK question the intelligence of everyone who did not know which section oc CFR 14 107 FAR 108 addressed this, but he does not know either.

If someone evades security, then the secure zone must be evacuated and checked, and everyone must be checked again because it's impossible to know what the guy did inside the secure zone.
The airport did not overreact; they simply did what they had to do -- to check everyone again. The entire event resulted from Lasseter's selfish, childish behaviour. If he evaded security because he were in a hurry, then future terrorists should just arrive late, too, and skip past security. No, that would portend a future of bombed airplanes, chemical attacks in airport gate/terminals, and perhaps more hijacked airplanes.
Unfortunately, the airport security still was unable to locate Lasseter on its own.
Also, I do not know the CFR's. I looked them up with the numbers people were quoting. They appear to be reasonable. Not knowing all the regulations (or not wanting to follow them) isn't a valid excuse for Lasseter to break them.