My reaction to all of this...

Last summer: Yay! Profiling! Look for threats, not weapons!

Last week: Oh man, mission creep. Not that kind of profiling. Who cares if someone has drugs? That's not aviation security.

This week: Crap, here comes the blowback and now we're back to "everybody's a threat."

FWIW, not sure if it's been mentioned, but Terminal A is also the only terminal where there's a Precheck lane. So now I'm really playing the lottery when I go through there.