Originally Posted by
Schmurrr
Why can't a program like this be implemented with an "innocent until proven guilty" mindset? That is, let everybody use the speedier security lane by default and select only the "suspicious" ones for the full laptops-out, shoes-off, nude-o-scope, and grope procedure.
Because that would be an admission that nearly every checkpoint procedure added over the past decade was all for show. And an admission that 9/11/01 was not really a checkpoint failure. But that's the whole premise on which TSA checkpoints operate -- "we can't revert to 9/11/01 checkpoint, they failed miserably".
And it would be a slap in the face to anyone who paid the $100 for Global Entry and underwent the background check and interview just to use PreCheck.
Once you start a lie, you can't just dismantle it so easily. You need to build and build on top of it.