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.
Their trusted traveler program should mirror the CBP, but I'm sure they will screw it up in its entirety and make life h#ll for everyone involved. (especially when they continue to lose the data they have taken both voluntarily and involuntarily through the airlines, etc)
You can't really compare the programs (or potential programs) as the agencies have different purposes.
If somebody gets thru GE (or "turns bad" after acceptance) what is the worse that happens? -- some smuggling goes on. Not a good thing, but not the end of the world. And if some OD's on some drugs smuggled in, it's not likely that somebody points a finger at GE as the "culprit."
What happens if the same thing happens to some future TSA "Trusted Traveller" program -- planes get hijacked/blown up/people die.
I think the most you'll see is something like Clear where you get a shortened line and that is about it.