The supervisor was the one who wanted to stop the screening process, so I had no reason to request it. My goal in these interactions is to push back as much as I can, and make the TSA people be the ones who say "no mas." I essentially had already "agreed" to let him stop the process when he said he wouldn't go on with it, and would call the LEOs to have me escorted out. He backed up on his "statement", not I. (See another thread where I indeed did have the supervisor stop the screening process and send me away.)
As information, the "secondary" patdown involves the front of hands on genitals, buttocks, and everywhere. I guess the TSA doesn't want other passengers to see such behavior in public, even though I had requested that.
My phone number is published in public telephone directories, so the supervisor could find it easily if he wanted to do so. With my travel schedule, I'm rarely there, so it's essentially worthless to him or to any other "followup" person. (Wonder if I'll get one of those surveys asking me how the TSA's customer assistance process was for me?)
I asked the supervisor to rerun the original false alarm test, but he said they cannot do that. So, once alarmed, always a criminal. However, they didn't use that machine for testing all the swabs (dozens and dozens) that they used for my carryon bags' contents; they used a different machine, which never gave a "bad" result. So I guess the TSA didn't trust the first machine any more than I did.
Bolding mine: So why did you say this earlier:
Patdown was more agressive but not intolerable. Supervisor was humming and whistling to himself; I was gritting my teeth and commenting softly.
To me that would not only be intolerable, but cause for legal action, perhaps for arrest of the offending TSO supervisor!