Originally Posted by
senseker
If you want your items in your view, you only have to ask. We're not going to tell you no 
Also, when we ask, it's more curiosity for me. But TSA wants to know why people are opting out of it.
And how did your laptop get damaged? Damged how?
That's baloney and you know it. If you ask to have your items in your view, "you're not going to tell me no". BS. Explain the multitudes of reports on here that clearly contradict that.
You "ask" about why people opt out of the WBI to serve your purposes of retribution and intimidation. If the TSA REALLY, REALLY was legitimately interested in what the public had to say, they'd eliminate the WBI, the shoe circus, the kippie bags and the fluid limits.
Look, the easy answer is this: We already go through the magnetometer. Why not walk through an ETP and be done with it? (And please don't insult my intelligence by claiming "technological concerns").