Originally Posted by HSVTSO Dean

As for being retaliatory?

According to the OP, he declined going into the WBI device. Cool. But as TSA has said, many times, and has been shown through a fair bit of statements made by people here and on the TSA Blog - if you take the option to refuse the WBI screening, then you will receive a pat-down. ...

How exactly can it be considered "retaliation," in an aggressive sense of the word, on the part of the screeners if they're doing what they seem to be supposed to be doing? Now I'd be a little more open to the idea if he agreed to the WBI scanning, and then was sent over for a full-body patdown anyway. That, however, doesn't appear to be the case here.