I don't usually read TS&S so I missed this topic. Last July, I went through a patdown similar to the one's everyone is complaining about. I didn't go through the metal detector because I was in a wheelchair. During the patdown the agent asked me to remove my wallet. He said that it had to go through the machine. I had to sit there and watch him put it in the tray and run it through the machine for me. I could not see from the place where I was sitting during the patdown. He brought it back, nothing missing. At the time there were no NoS Scanners yet he still said it was required. This leads me to believe that the request to put the wallet through in the OP had nothing to do with the scanner. Wouldn't they have done the same thing for him if he went through a pat down instead, or am I just special?