Originally Posted by
SEA737
Interesting. Yeah, not my experience. Hard to extrapolate though, but it doesn't look like the vast majority are getting that kind of questioning. Definitely not at the gate.
They have a special "enhanced questioning" room somewhere at the terminal connecting corridors leading to T3 departures where they try to lure you in, which is best to ignore, and you get a shorter interview at the gate, usually. This is how they used to do it for a while, not sure if it has changed lately.
Everybody is supposed to go through that, it doesn't have anything to do with GE or SSSS.