Speaker 1
as soon as I got to the passport check line, the agent looked over to another agent and asked, is the TTRT team available? I didn't know what that acronym stood for, so I did a quick Google search. At that point, I realized it meant the Task Force on Terrorism, something along those lines, Tactical Terrorism Response Team, is what the acronym was. And at that point, my gut just, you know, my heart fell into my stomach at that point. I was so, you know, concerned and worried. I looked over at my wife and I told her we're probably going to be stopped and detained and questioned. And so they eventually took me over to an interview room. My family was waiting for me anxiously, not knowing what was going on. And then a plain clothes officer walks in and says, we know that you're an attorney and we know that you've been handling some high profile cases lately. And then I said, okay, well, what can I help you with? And he said, we would like to look at your phone. And he handed me a pamphlet with a federal statute that says that at the border, they're allowed to confiscate my phone for a number of days. And at that point, I was just shocked that they wanted to take my phone.
Speaker 2
Well, let me ask you this. At that point, did you have any sense of why they wanted to see your phone? What did they tell you? Well,
Speaker 1
it was apparent to me at that point that they had already done their homework about me before I arrived because they knew that I was taking on some cases. He knew who I was and he knew where I was coming from and he knew I was an attorney. So it wasn't a random selection. They were prepared to talk to me and discuss things with me. And he was adamant that he wanted to see my phone. What
Speaker 2
did you do then? Did you give him your phone?
