The TSA sends random, unchecked passengers through its Pre-Check line

TSA sends random people through the Pre-Check line

The TSA sends random, unchecked passengers through its Pre-Check line
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The TSA's Pre-Check program allows travelers to experience pre-9/11 security — keep your shoes on, your toiletries in the bag, and your dignity intact — for a low fee of $85 a year plus fingerprinting. However, The Blaze reports that the TSA regularly undermines its own security rhetoric by directing random passengers who haven't been pre-checked into the Pre-Check lines to minimize wait times.

Though the TSA claims that only "eligible passengers" are being spontaneously allowed into the Pre-Check lines, less than a month ago a TSA spokesperson admitted that they were putting people through pre-check "on a random basis."

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.