Originally Posted by
bse118
Not to mention - it's not TSA who controls or cares who gets in the priority/business/firstclass screening lines. That's controlled by the airports - in most cases the people checking your BP at the entrance to the line are airport employees.
Yes that's correct. The TSA doesn't manage the lines before the ID check station (other than the occasional TSA agent checking for PreCheck). That's up to the airports (or airlines in they own/control the terminal).
That's why Clear exists (and in some airports, but not others).