Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
I suspect that this is simply a way to revoke Pre-Check status for that small number of people who simply refuse to understand how Pre-Check works, consistently violate the obvious rules about prohibited items at the checkpoint, pull the DYKWIA card once too often, and so on. And, obviously, there needs to be a way to note that the status shouldn't be granted again if the passenger re-applies.
That's the optimistic way of looking at it.
The pessimistic way of looking at it, of course, is that this is a way for rogue TSOs to arbitrarily punish passengers for disrespecting their authority, flying while non-Anglo, etc..
Of course, TSA's lack of transparency means that either possibility could be true, and we have no way of knowing ...
Or both.
Ted Kennedy, Al Gore and a reporter who had written a piece critical of DHS/TSA all 'somehow' ended up on the watch list at one time - no one knew how or why, of course.
Again, IIRC, Kennedy commented at the time that he was lucky he was who he was and had the resources he had to get the 'mistake' fixed, but he wondered what recourse, if any, was available to other victims who might be 'mistakenly' put on the list.