Why are the feds searching cars at Alewife?

Zolok reports it wasn't just MBTA cops searching cars today - TSA agents were in the house as well:

... This is the third time since January that I've seen high profile security swarming the Alewife Red Line. ...

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WBZ radio said that today's

WBZ radio said that today's T search training was a combined effort between the MBTA and the TSA. Maybe that's it.

was someone wearing

was someone wearing camouflage shorts and taking photos? Or did someone just spill some chalk?

random bag

Didn't you hear...

...Governer Patrick can't remember where he parked when he went to Summer Shack. He should have just done a Jane Swift and used the heliocopter. =)

Arrest for refusing bag check?

I just noticed this in yesterday's Herald article: "Anyone who refuses a bag check could be escorted off the property or arrested."

I hope this is just the Herald's usual inability to get a fact straight, and the state isn't trying to revoke the right to refuse a search and leave the station.

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