Originally Posted by
Vidiot
What's the purpose of this? Is it to ensure they're using a clean swab, or is it to make sure that the new, fresh gloves don't have some weird kind of false positive?
Its so they can't put on a pair of contaminated gloves and force you to a private room for a personal grope.
Also, the TSA types here are likely to chime in and say none of this happens, that we're all over reacting and have an agenda. This is false. There are documented cases of retaliation, genital groping, false explosive hits, etc.
Protect yourself from the government.