This article needed to be on the front page of the Times for all the world to see, not tucked into the Business section.

A dispute with a TSA screener or airline personnel means disqualification for Pre-Check? I have no doubt that I would ever be granted Pre-Check status should I ever decide to travel by air again as I have been an extremely vocal critic of the TSA.

The invasions of privacy by the TSA are even worse than the NSA's, especially if TSA is sharing information with debt collection agencies.

All this is made even worse because the TSA let slip just recently in certain court documents that:

"“As of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports; instead, their focus is on fundraising, recruiting, and propagandizing . . . there have been no attempted domestic hijackings of any kind in the 12 years since 9/11.”

A despicable agency that needs to be dissolved.