This is getting worrisome.

This indicates that the TSA is either overstaffed and/or underworked and is trying to generate additional workload for TSOs for whom there is no room at checkpoints.

It's been going on for some time now. Thermal imaging cameras at airport entrances, gate searches, drink testing, the entire SPOT program (which is based on entirely unfounded pseudoscientific principles), VIPR squads at non-transportation-related venues, the list goes on and on...

The answer to the overstaffing problem is not to set up additional "abundance of caution" screening presences. The answer is to cut jobs, cut employment, cut spending. The economy is overtaxed (no pun intended) as it is and this seems to me a pretty clear-cut example of budget fat that could easily and productively be trimmed out.

GWB was lauded for creating jobs when DHS/TSA was founded, but it was clearly an ill-thought-out action as they didn't consider the kind of candidates the jobs would attract. Now that we've seen both

A. The power-hungry types that apply for TSA jobs

and

B. The fact that there is apparently not enough work to go around (coupled with the complete failure to stop even a single terrorist in over 9 years of operation)

It's time for a budget cut. A big one. And lots of job cuts to go with it. If they're so in love with SPOT, then let them keep it until it's proven to be the failure it is, but they definitely need to hand out pink slips to TSOs who, for whatever reason, are deemed unfit to work at actual checkpoints.