Originally Posted by Bart
Until now, I understood our duties to be limited to making sure the boarding pass was for the correct departure (for us, leaving SAT), and whether or not there were any SSSS on the BP for the additional screening. Apparently we had a Red Team attack that used a bogus BP with the wrong date and wrong origination airport. The contractor ticket readers missed it, but our TSA WTMD monitor caught it. Hooray for TSA, right? No, not at all, because this "success" reinforced the notion that WTMD screeners should be back-up ticket readers. What's the big deal? Well, this could easily balloon into showing your ID at the WTMD as well. Hope I'm wrong.
I hope you're wrong too. Looking at IDs is a different concept then checking boarding passes for SSSS. However, if you don't note the date and origination airport, then how do you know you have verified the correct departure and the absence of SSSS. Many people travel woth more than one boarding pass and oftentimes only the originating leg with have the SSSS designation. If the WTMD person doesn't look at the date and airport, they have no way of ensuring they're looking at the right pass. Lots of people every day hand us either the wrong boarding pass or the whole packet of passes for us to pick through.