A TSA agent who may have lied about a bomb threat can't be sued? That's appalling

The following editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, Aug. 26:

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In 1965, narcotics agents burst into the home of Webster Bivens without a warrant, manacled him in front of his family, threatened to arrest his wife and children and marched him off to the Brooklyn courthouse. Six years later, the lawsuit Bivens brought reached the Supreme Court, which ruled for the first time that agents of the federal government could be sued personally for damages if they violated