Originally Posted by GUWonder

The TSA has a history of having crooks in its rank and file, so why let those facts get in the way? To defend the TSA checking passenger ID for who knows what purpose? It seems so.

As a practical matter, the Passport Card is pretty addresses, at least in good part, the different reasonable concerns in the following quoted post:



As in the quoted post above, the facts are that postal employees and neighborhood-"patrolling" police have most certainly been involved in enabling thefts at houses they knew were highly likely to be empty.

Given the history of the TSA stealing from passengers' checked luggage and otherwise (including stealing from the government/taxpayer), it wouldn't be a surprise if the TSA has also been involved or gets involved in swiping passenger info for various criminal purposes at the airport or beyond. The TSA certainly aren't all going to avoid home burglary out of moral reasons.