Originally Posted by
lost_perspicacity
The wait in LGA is for ID check. After ID check you go straight to the screening lane (single). Clear members are "cutting" in front of the regular ID check line. Clear and TSA were letting 5 Clear members in for every one non-clear member so the regular line was barely moving.
What gives you the idea that the ID check line that you refer to is the Pre-check line. In all the airports I travel through that have both, I walk through the Clear Lane, and once cleared, I am taken to a TSA agent that is ‘validating’ the appropriate credentials through both Clear and Pre-Check lanes.
The fact that TSA gives priority to Clear passengers is an issue you might have with TSA, but it is ‘clearly’ not the Clear passengers fault.