And I always seem to be that person :(

Most times we fly with the kids we get to pre-board. heh I wonder if I can train our 5-month old to spit up on cue..."Hey, since you got those fancy gloves on, you want to clean her up for me?" :D

Whatever happened to the notion that TSA's domain is the checkpoint and anything beyond that is airport police jurisdiction?

More of this crap? Wow....

I don't believe anything that they claim to be random is actually random, until they ask me to choose from a deck of cards and there's a sign saying if you pick an ace, you're getting a random search.

Watch the video at the bottom for some added entertainment.
Pa: "I'm all for it."

I hope they do a better job than they used to in trying to identify "suspects".

My 70 year old mother, and 5 year old, red-headed son were pulled out and checked last time they were doing these.

No one, regardles of their appearance, should ever be haraSSSSed at the gate in any way without clear, probable cause to do so.

Wonder whether this will cause more departure delays due to excessive fannying about at the gate, or more passengers to miss flights due to longer screening queues (owing to fewer TSO's staffing the screening area). If that's starts happening, I'd expect the airlines to clamoring about it, and this whole nugatory exercise to be brought to a halt.

Here's a quite-likely scenario:

Passenger in one of the (but not THE) last groups to board gets snagged for gate haraSSSSment, and in the time it takes to do the pointless search, the last of the available overhead space gets taken, resulting in that poor schmuck, who otherwise would have been able to carry on his bag, to have to check his bag and get ding'd for $15/$25...resulting in such utter anger at the occurrence to the point where he gets removed form the flight altogether for being a perceived threat.

Think it won't happen? Uh, and more than a few times?

that would be profiling and would be slapped down in minutes, to be 'random' they do literally have to recheck these people as stupid as the whole thing is.

if i get selected I will be asking 'so by putting me through another check you are admitting utter failure in preventing unwanted items into the secure area in the first place?'

This is NOT a communist country. ...? Why bother having gate rescreening AFTER going thru security area before the gate?!? What's wrong with Bush Administration?!? :td::td::td:

I wouldn't worry too much about it. The ASASP teams have been operating for awhile now. They have other duties that take up a lot of their time. I don't think that there will be a full return of gate screening, but then again I could be wrong....

This government workfare program needs to be cut down to size so they don't have the staffing levels to engage in this nonsense.

We don't have the staffing levels to engage in this "nonsense". When they pull TSO's off the checkpoints to do their shift on ADASP, it sucks.

(Non-sarcastic to you, Cee) Yeah, I'm sure when you or your people get assigned to gate haraSSSSment, the thought is, "Well sh*t, as if I don't have to take enough hate and abuse from customers at the checkpoint, now I've gotta go take it even WORSE at the gate!" I don't envy y'all on this one (because trust me, as much disdain as we have for the pointless job you do in general, when it comes to the gate haraSSSSment thing, it doesn't get much worse!).