Originally Posted by
VegasGambler
Well the idea behind CLEAR is that they don't need to go through the identity verification part because CLEAR does that for them. The first line is to verify your identity.
Personally I think it's BS but it is what it is. I hope that CLEAR is paying TSA enough money for that.
Which, if you think about it, is the government admitting a private company can verify identity better than their "professionally trained officers."
I actually think the idea behind CLEAR is that precheck is too cheap for priority security. Gotta make travellers pay more.