Originally Posted by ElizabethConley

My take on "trusted traveler" is that 99.9 % of citizens belong in this category.

The DHS has a list of people they are worried about. The DHS needs to inform all the people on their no-fly list that they are on the list. Then there needs to be a sensible dialog about why these people haven't been arrested for crimes or scratched off the list. Many people who are on the list would probably be annoyed, but after the initial shock wears off they might be willing to give the DHS enough information to calm the investigators' anxieties and get themselves off the list.

As for the rest of the population, they're all "trusted travelers" until proved otherwise.

The TSA must get very, very good at identifying the short list of people the DHS feels threatened by. The TSA must also get very, very good at treating everyone with respect and courtesy.

Really and truly, what they need is an UNTRUSTED TRAVELER PROGRAM that actually works.