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Feb 9, 2009 | 3:34 pm

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Originally Posted by pmocek

I disagree. The ID check also facilitates TSA's policy of restricting people's freedom of movement using blacklists. I believe this is TSA's only interest in determining the identities of passengers.

Can you please explain how the TSO at the disconnected, isolated podium is accomplishing this? Do all BP and ID checking TSO's have all the > 100,000 SSSS warranting names memorized so they can check the pax' usually home-printed boarding pass and potentially faked ID against that memorized list? I've noticed many of the TSO's seem distracted... maybe that's why.

Or is your word "facilitates" meant to imply that eventually the hook up to the data trove will come, and the boarding passes and REAL ID's will be scanned to look for matches against that impossibly large list?

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