Maybe they should have done nothing and just let the man go. However, if he did have a bomb, and he set it off killing a group of people, we can guess what this thread would have been about. The Marshal's motto should be : "We are damned if we do, and damned if we don't."

Next time I fly, I hope I'm sitting next to a Marshal.

Do your job Marshals..screw the know it all detractors who were not there.