Minnesota TSA official: PreCheck status handed out "like candy"

[timosman]

The agency's PreCheck program, which pre-screens travelers for a speeded-up line, is also called out. Rebecca Roering, a TSA assistant security director in Minnesota, says she raised concerns about the practice of ushering people who weren't actual participants in the program onto PreCheck lines to speed things up. "TSA is handing out PreCheck status like Halloween candy," she said in a June hearing.

In one case, Sara Jane Olson, the Minnesotan convicted in a 1970s plot by the Symbionese Liberation Army to bomb police cars, was allowed through the PreCheck line even after being recognized; a supervisor overruled the Minneapolis screener who flagged her.

http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/morning_roundup/2015/07/minnesota-tsa-official-precheck-status-handed-out.html

[muh_roads]

Good!

I'm all for efficiency. The shoe and underwear bomber were all coerced inside jobby jobs anyway via the FBI.

[oyarde]

I do pretty well in that airport , usually break out the original , game worn Chuck Foreman Jersey or something, LOL

[Danke]

People are not really understanding pre-check. It is a special lane so you don't have the usual wait and can go through without taking off you shoes and belt and laptop from bag. Still security. If no one is there or very few people, it speeds up screening for everyone to send you there.