Yes, even as it makes if easier to play “whack-a-mole” on their heads. But those aren’t the reasons why. It’s to make examination and groping easier for the TSA while trying to make the targets feel disempowered by those making such demands in the name of security.

Some are surprised the TSA hasn’t gone even more like prisoner admission facilities and demanded that screening subjects spread their private parts, bend over and cough, or things like that. Body cavity searches have not skipped the mind of DHS/TSA management.