White House pulled plug on Kristi Noem's plot to suspend TSA PreCheck: report

A plot to suspend the popular TSA PreCheck that angered travelers was hatched by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski, and had to be stopped with a White House intervention, according to a new report in The Washington Post.

The Saturday announcement that PreCheck would halt at 6 a.m. Sunday sparked immediate outrage from Democrats and air travel groups. By Sunday morning, passengers discovered the program was running normally anyway...