Their toning it down because of the bad press. However like every other thing the Govt has ever done, when they meet resistance (no not that kind!) they will back down just enough to quell the outrage, then slowly, bring it back up to previous levels, often, surpassing previous levels once the population has been conditioned enough to allow it.

Personally i think the Grope and scope was nothing mroe than a test run to see what people would take, But the explosion of reports online, and in the news, the sudden backlash, has told them, that the govt needs to better condition the population so they understand that they have no rights or freedoms.