Originally Posted by
GoingAway
Here is a government run program where people are trusted and vetted, so that they can be admitted into the country without even talking or seeing an agent, yet the TSA wants to molest you to get on a plane to travel within the country. Stupidity at work.
While certainly TSA could develop a better program, I don't think the direct comparison is quite so obvious. For one thing, you may not see an agent when using GE, but they see you, as do the drug sniffing dogs and the computers that track suspicious overseas activity. If you became a problem traveler after being accepted in the program, there are plenty of ways to stop you upon entry.