Another article on this:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...owns/98713844/
I love this quote:
Originally Posted by Nico Melendez, a public affairs manager for TSA
...lessens the cognitive burden for our officers.
I think we have a new classic. Lessen the cognitive burden of a TSO - someone whose cognition is (ostensibly) directly tasked with the safety and security of the traveling public.
In other words, we don't want TSOs to have to think too hard on the job, so we're just going to escalate every search up to 100% by default so they never have to strain their <deleted> brains while charged with maintaining the safety and security of the traveling public.
Of course, it's completely consistent with TSA's historical attitude of,
"Well, airport screenings have been found legal by the court - therefore we are allowed to to anything we want, to anyone we want, at any time we want, in any place we want, using any method or tool we want. We're completely unlimited! (give us more money, we're doing so much we need more people).