Okay, if people are really erasing TSAMGR's posts, stop it. It's pretty brave of TSAMGR to even enter this forum and it's better to hear from both sides of a conflict.

Okay, so here's my beef with gate screening: how does it address the problem of understaffing? If you subtract people from the main checkpoint and send them off to do gate checks, won't you be in a worse place than where you started? As I understand what you've said, TSA can just arbitrarily NOT check people who got SSSS' es and do gate checks to compensate.

The above is absurd. Clearly, the SSSS'ed people are the ones you need to check. How does ignoring them, and then going after completely random other people in a different area of the airport possibly balance out? Either SSSS really identifies a more risky group of travelers or it doesn't.

The glaring inconsistencies in TSA's procedures and policies have made it the laughingstock of frequent travelers *and* put it on the receiving end of three negative reports from independent agencies in a single week.