When you use CLEAR at an airport security checkpoint, the company verifies your identity – usually using your iris or fingerprints – and then you don’t have to show your ID to the TSA. There are random ID checks still, and they’ve become increasingly common. And now there are calls to require passengers using CLEAR to show ID all the time.

The federal government has considered cracking down on CLEAR after an error verifying someone’s identity. The passenger was caught during the screening process with ammunition. There’s no suggestion that an ID check would have flagged a problem, or that he sought to do anything nefarious.

We now know there were two other security incidents out of millions of passengers that CLEAR is processing.

• One passenger used a boarding pass that wasn’t theirs, and CLEAR didn’t verify that their identity didn’t match.

• In the other incident, a passenger went through CLEAR without having been enrolled.

Oops. In both cases, an employee didn’t follow protocol. And in both cases, the employees and their managers were fired, and all employees went through re-training. You’d never get that kind of response from TSA!

There were 3 known ID lapses (everyone was still screened at security). All it means is that these people weren’t checked against a flawed government screening databases. No Fly Lists include people added by mistake (FBI agent checking the wrong box on a form or having a name similar to someone else) and even added maliciously (such as retaliation for refusing to cooperate in an investigation).

Yet somehow the solution is… more TSA. Cue the histrionics,

Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the top Democrat on the House committee that oversees the Homeland Security Department, blasted what he called CLEAR’s “lax security controls.”

“After being briefed that there have been multiple security breaches over the past year due to CLEAR’s lax security controls, it is apparent that the company puts its bottom line ahead of the security of our aviation system,” Thompson said in a statement to POLITICO. “Each passing day the homeland is at greater risk until TSA acts to completely close these security vulnerabilities that it was alerted to last year. We cannot afford any additional delay.”

TSA itself has had numerous issues identifying passengers, or failing to identify passengers. And no punitive action is taken against TSA. No one gets fired. Tens of thousands of TSA employees have been accused of misconduct. And their own inspector general has on numerous occasions actually found 90% or more of dangerous items making it through checkpoints undetected.

TSA serves as both the security regulator and service provider. They regulate themselves, and that’s what’s dangerous. CLEAR is actually more accountable.

Yet what’s being considered here is making passengers show ID after using CLEAR. That sounds like it hurts CLEAR’s business, because we think the business is about security and biometrics in place of ID. But to the frequent flyer it’s about having the option to skip to the front of the security line and that would remain in place. That’s why people sign up for CLEAR and will continue to do so.

Today passengers randomly have to show ID at security even after using CLEAR. No one suggested that undermined the usefulness of the service. Subjecting passengers using the service to ID checks won’t either, at least for passengers who know what they’re buying.