Kevin Williamson, typically trenchant: “CLEAR has some fancy high-tech hoo-haw on the front end — biometric scanners and whatnot — but what it really offers is an officially sanctioned way to cut in line. […] But it wasn’t CLEAR that made air travel in the United States the ghastly mess it is — that was the TSA, the FAA, the local airport authorities, Congress, state legislatures, and a host of other malefactors, whose collective incompetence (and, at times, corruption) created the market for CLEAR.”