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Dec 21, 2013 | 12:20 pm

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The barrier to entry for a TSA Edward Snowden is pretty low; just look for a pizza box or gas pump with a TSA help wanted ad.

It would be the most fun thing to happen since the unredacted screening manual that FTers discovered here a few years ago. ^

Dec 21, 2013 | 12:33 pm

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Originally Posted by jkhuggins

And that person would undoubtedly be roasted here on FT for working for TSA in the first place

Not if he/she spoke the truth, the WHOLE truth, and NOTHING BUT the truth!

Dec 21, 2013 | 12:53 pm

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And that person would undoubtedly be roasted here on FT for working for TSA in the first place

Only until they quit working for the TSA, pulled back the curtain, and moved on to a real job.

Anyone going into the TSA for an exposé would hopefully be very well aware of the public opinion toward their ostensible "job."

Dec 21, 2013 | 1:48 pm

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And that person would undoubtedly be roasted here on FT for working for TSA in the first place

I can think of several TSA people that have posted here without drinking their employers koolaid, but they tend to mysteriously disappear after a while.

Dec 21, 2013 | 2:23 pm

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But do you truly believe that BDOs sent well over 200,000 people to precheck on just one day in December based on interviews and observations of those individuals?

You know me well enough to know my answer is "no". But software sent more than 200,000 non-FFP elites/non-"trusted traveler" program members to PreCheck on a single day this month. All part of PC managed inclusion too.

Dec 21, 2013 | 9:13 pm

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If you have a few minutes and are willing to share your story, I think a lot of us would be very interested in the details of your encounter with SPOTNiks that led to them searching your bag for drugs.

I posted it somewhere around here a while ago. It was because i refused to play the 20 questions game.

Dec 22, 2013 | 5:44 am

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Thanks. I can totally accept that their spyware sent people to precheck - that's what it's supposed to do.

Dec 22, 2013 | 12:38 pm

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They got really excited when they found my baggie of Vitamin D pills.

I saw a friends low dose aspirin pills the other day while we were having lunch. They had a cute little heart shape on them. They looked exactly like ecstasy pills.

I guess they could have been ecstasy and the friend was just claiming they were lose dose aspirin, although in that case he had a bottle of 500...