overruled. cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh is live in washington. rene with this kind of criminal background how would he or she be able to get this fast track through security? >> reporter: well you laid out some of his -- this person's background but this felon's criminal activities we want to add, involved explosives and includes murder. yet the felon sailed through precheck. that means shoes coats, belts, all were allowed to stay on. they don't have to remove certain liquids and gels from their luggage. there are two ways you can get precheck status. either apply or you are randomly picked. we know in this case the felon was randomly picked. that means the criminal background was not checked, no fingerprints were provided but we should point out the name was matched against a terror data base and we know that the name did not appear in the terror data base. that being said i spoke with a former tsa official today who says look this really