Originally Posted by TravelManKen
One can be cleared to handle sensitive national security documents and work for the POTUS in the White House, but he or she can't get on a freaking plane any faster than some chump on parole for murder? Yeah, that's bright
Well intuitively it is "funny" to make such cleared people remove their shoes, in reality it is necessary. With no formal ID system nor other way to verify one's clearance level and status, and with potentially millions of people cleared, it is necessary to screen them too (and I am one who is normally against most of TSA's assinine policies).
Now, are we talking about excluding them from random SSSS? Well, I think that should be done away with anyway.