Originally Posted by
tadc
Except there's no card w/GE, so it's literally just picking up your bags, walking through a door and re-depositing them. I guess there was probably someone standing nearby who could have accosted me, but that's true anywhere in the airport.
I see what your saying but it still seems a bit silly.
The ticket that you get from the GE machine is the equivalent of the card. I got randomly pulled aside (no X) during my last entry through T5 with GE and had every bag thoroughly checked, so while it doesn't happen often, it's not an impossibility.