TSA probes Clear after it let through a passenger carrying ammo
Traveler verification program Clear allowed a passenger traveling with ammunition to breeze through its security screening last year, according to a Bloomberg report. The passenger was stopped by the Transportation Security Administration and later found to also be traveling under a false identity, according to the report, which suggests the private security company flubbed its screening process.Similar to the TSA's PreCheck program, Clear Secure provides passengers a service aimed at speeding up the pre-flight screening process so that they can spend less time waiting in line before flights. Clear verifies passengers at roughly 50 airports across the U.S. using their fingerprints and iris scans, letting them skip having their identity cards scanned by TSA. Travelers enrolled in the progr...