The panel rejected the government’s contention that the proviso is limited to officers with traditional police powers, the report said. The panel also rejected the government’s contention that TSOs are not officers partly because the Airport Transportation Security Act refers to them as “employees,” where the Act defines employees to include officers, the report said.

So, the government was pretending that TSOs were not officers, but employees. That makes it allright then. No other 'employee' has the right to grope people. Finally some common sense, but knowing Dems, they will double down, and appeal, again.