Originally Posted by
gingersnaps
More likely with more managed inclusion. As has been discussed in this thread or other threads about Brussels, the bottle neck is an issue.
We must ask ourselves, does MI I or RTTA make us any safer? Chris Morran of the consumerist reported
"TSA Just Decides Everyone In My Line Is Qualified For Expedited Screening" when Morran questioned the TSA about what happened he was told “TSA also utilizes these lanes during certain times for other low-risk passengers who are identified through a real-time threat assessment process,”. Morran goes onto to explain "a man who appeared to be a TSA supervisor stood and declared that my line and the one next to it are now PreCheck lanes."
Here is a
archived webpage from TSA about Managed Inclusion which informs "After the
initial risk assessment by Passenger Screening Canines and Behavior Detection Officers as passengers move through the standard security checkpoint area." The safety of the traveling public is left entirely too dogs that can be fooled and those who are affectionately term "SPOTNIKS" here on Flyertalk. Most important of Morran's article is:
There were no canines sniffing around the lines in question, no electronic mat with directional arrows. What’s described in above and in the below video is a process wherein a decision is made at the checkpoint about each passenger, but the situation I was part of involved a supervisor simply declaring that two lines were now PreCheck.
For sake of argument, consider that Morran account is true a TSA Supervisor announces to entire general public "these lanes are now Precheck". What kind of security is found in announcing to the whole public where the least screening is occurring? Back in the days of hand swab Managed Inclusion, I heard TSA supervisor announce the percentage of individuals who should get their hands swabbed.
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If TSA were asked about the situation Morran describes, I'm sure we would be told that although there were no dogs or swabs, BDOs had checked out the pax in the regular line, and based on the BDOs scrutiny, all pax were deemed low-risk.
Awkward time for Neffenger. He's created massive slowdowns in airports around the country - enough to get on the nerves of even infrequent and first-time fliers. Events in BRU have just demonstrated how much this tactic of his is putting people at greater risk.
I wonder if he's still going to extend the completely unanticipated (by TSA) 'spring break' slowdown into and throughout the summer.