“You shouldn’t need ID to read the law, just as you shouldn’t need ID to travel by common carrier.”
The TSA’s digital ID rule rests on thousands of pages of private standards never published in the Federal Register. NARA says its copy sits in offsite storage, six weeks or more away. At TSA headquarters a contract guard refused entry without ID, and the agency’s lawyer hung up rather than issue a formal denial. The rules about who needs ID can only be read by people who have it.