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James Lankford: “But if we have folks that are just randomly coming to the airport and they say, 'You do not look like a terrorist, so I…”

On the recordJune 8, 2015
But if we have folks that are just randomly coming to the airport and they say, 'You do not look like a terrorist, so I am going to put you over there,' that is not really PreCheck at that point.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

Editor's note · Context

Lankford critiques the current PreCheck process for lacking proper evaluation.

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