Originally Posted by
FliesWay2Much
Interesting explanation. It's clear that the "private room" is solely for the TSA's benefit, so the public won't see the clerk cupping and presumably holding genitals. He also sugar-coated the DY...T threat. Regardless of how he played "good cop," he still threatened you.
I can only conclude that the TSA believes that explosive can only be hidden in genitals.
I don't believe the explanation for a minute. All you have to do is look at the pics on
http://thedailypatdown.com/
where you will see lots of people getting groped with the front of the hand, especially the woman whose breast is being cupped by a screener.