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On the recordMarch 24, 2015
So, basically, we let a domestic terrorist get on a plane that, if that person had applied through PreCheck, that person would have--well, if that person who traveled had applied through the regular PreCheck program, what would that person's status have been?
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Bennie Thompson
Democratic · Mississippi

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Thompson highlights a failure in security allowing a domestic terrorist to board a plane.

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