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Potential whistleblowers deserve more support. Their moral choices protect our democracy. We've started 'Bearing Witness' to support people of faith who are potential whistleblowers. We hope more workers will find the courage to step forward. Louis Clark and Brian McLaren Opinion contributors Sometimes government wrongdoing is on full display. We all witnessed the thousands of aggrieved supporters of then-President Donald Trump supporters, amped up on government-issued lies and rhetoric, hold the Capitol Building and Congress captive while millions of us were held captive by our television sc...

And has been with the agency for 17 years. he says tsa is cutting corners on the screening process to shorten wait times. one example, tsa reduced the sensitivity on all walk-through metal detectors at airports across america. >> they are reducing the concentration of metal that it would take to set off that alarm so you can speed up alarms and have fewer pat-downs. >> how do you know? >> because there's a memo out that supports it. >> reporter: the memo says the order came in 2013 changing all detector settings in all lanes to the tsa pre-check setting to normalize the passenger experience. b...

According to this tas memo, the access will not finish testing the existing work force until the end of next year. brainard knows despite whistle-blower protection and consistent top ratings on his tsa performance evaluations, speaking out could cost him his job. >> i fully expect that the first discussion that they're going to have is how they can fire me. >> reporter: he believes these issues are too urgent to keep quiet. to be clear, no changes have been made to the body scanners that travelers go through. now at cnn, we reached out to both agencies investigating brainard's complaints, but ...

Bags in precheck lanes. this internal memo states as of last month those x-ray machines should be operated without the auto detection algorithm enabled. >> put simply when the that box is no longer on the screen. tsa has made changes to the settings which really hamper the ability of the x-ray operator to detect explosives in carry-on baggage. they have been putting millions of passengers into tsa pre-check who are not pre-check. you do not have an entire population in pre-check that are voted. >> good morning -- >> reporter: cnn put this to tsa administrator david petkoski. he said they are n...