Originally Posted by
Boggie Dog
How does TSA's checking ID help enforce the no-fly list when TSA does not directly compare ID to any database?
I'm sure you're aware of this by now, but I'll answer it anyway. The airline checks your name against the no-fly database, and then the TSA makes sure that the name on your ticket, which was checked against the database, is actually the name of the person getting on the plane.
Originally Posted by
chollie
TSA does not play 'probabilities'. They constantly remind us that it's important to check genitals and breast milk and medicines and breast cancer survivors because it only takes one time and you just never know. They also stress the importance of an ID check for security reasons that they have never disclosed, because no other country I've been to thinks who you are matters if you haven't got anything threatening on you or in your bags.
TSA definitely plays probabilities. The best example is Pre-Check, where they give expedited screening to those who have lower probability of carrying contraband. Other things like random secondary searches are also based on probabilities.
Originally Posted by
chollie
I show up with a 367-day old DL with a picture that still looks exactly like me and I get the full treatment just because the license has expired.
I think a one-year grace period is perfectly reasonable. They have to draw the line somewhere, otherwise people will try to fly with a 10-year old ID and insist it still looks like them.
Originally Posted by
chollie
Where are these folks coming from? If you're talking folks from way south of the border, I sincerely doubt there's much in the way of DNA or fingerprint evidence available on record in their home countries.
That is the case for almost all foreigners. Even if there is DNA or fingerprint evidence available on record in their home countries, TSA doesn't have access to it.
Originally Posted by
chollie
Next year, they're going to make my life miserable if I show up with the same DL that they accept today because it will no longer meet the RealID requirements.
Blame Congress for that, not the TSA.