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Old Dec 18, 2007 | 10:00 pm
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Originally Posted by CTAnderson
At least now they check something valid.
Neither you nor I nor anyone else standing around a checkpoint can assess either authenticity of a given document, or the validity of the person presenting a particular piece of ID.

The best a TSAer can do is determine that a particular document looks or seems real, and that the name and photo match the pax and their boarding pass. That's it.

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