Law experts: can you be denied entrance to a TSA checkpoint for not saying your name?

So get this, MY interpretation is 1. When you get any form of identification at a United States governing agency, you are required to verify identity then and there, and according to @D's post as long as you provide said identification, whether it be physically (drivers license, passport, etc.) or verbally (obviously spoken), there shouldn't be any resistance or delay, unless you act unreasonably or defiantly. C'est la vie. Nuff said!

I have always refused to say my name when the TSA asks. First, the vocalization of my name in no way help to identify me to TSA (unless they are voice matching). The TSA just needs to confirm that the name on the ticket and the name on the photo ID is the same, and that my face bears a likeness to the photo on the ID. That's all!! The agent will no doubt call a supervisor when you refuse to "speak on command", but they will ultimately admit that there is no law that compels you to speak your name. I was told by a TSA Supervisor, that knowing the law and actually exercising my right to refuse "made me more suspicious" to the TSA and that "it would be easier on me" to just play along. Which means that they have based their procecedures on an assumption that the general public is ignorant and unaware of their rights. (If you don't feel like talking, try using Sign Language to spell out your name. It is a recognized language, and the alphabet is easy to learn . . . it will drive the TSA completely NUTS!!)

Maybe next time my name will be Mike Hunt.

Stone, I'm with you. Just got back from a lovely break down in Carmel, Monterey. I had to fly home from SFO (home is PDX). The TSA there are like a mix between little schoolboy brats and wannabee army bullies, and they even failed at that with me. The one douche (I cannot keep my integrity and call them anything grand like 'agent') asked me to step over towards some scanning machine. And turn my back on all my property in the trays? Right. Soon I was surrounded by 3 of them, but I knew they were grasping when they told me to calm down. Needless to say, I was the calm one while they were over-reacting and holding an inquest over why I wouldn't move. I'd had an experience in Chicago when a TSA man asked me to go to a scanning machine thing and I did so ultra-obediently like a sheepdog. When he said I was ok to go, I turned around to get my stuff out the trays and my cash had gone. He made a token effort to find out how and then shrugged and said I shouldn't have taken my eyes off it or left it in the trays. So now in SFO, I'm applying the instruction to the letter and the lessons learned from that experience. One of the 3 amigos picks up one of the trays and offers to move it and the others over to a shelf where I will still see it while being scanned. Problem solved, except I didn't give anyone permission to lift a tray containing my property and the attitude of the first douche had already done the damage. He yelled about 5 times don't touch anything in the trays. Like I'm a child? Oh sorry, you're the child and you think everyone else is like you. Tossers Society of America. SFO and Chicago - both like to yell a lot and come over all sergeant-major. TSA - how else were the Klan going to covertly spread their evil throughout the entire country?

Not only does the TSA at SFO ask for your first and last name, at the pre-screening podium, they also check your boarding pass twice, I walked 3 feet from the pre-screen podium and another TSA employee asked to see my boarding pass again, when I asked him why I was having to show it again, he copped an attitude with me. SFO is the worst airport I have ever flown from. I hate fying out of that airport, only because the TSA EMPLOYEES act like you shouldn't ask them anything....I went through the scanner 2 weeks ago and a female TSA person reached over and touched my left arm, she didn't ask me if she could touch me, she said," Do you have anything under your sleeve, I had a thin summer blouse on and I said yeah bones and skin, she gave me a eat S*** look ... I thought that was a stupid question to ask me. I think the majority of the people they hire couldn't get another job....