Yesterday evening at BUR my girlfriend was rather steamed when she was asked to remove her jean shirt exposing a white tank underneath. I told her that it was now SOP for all travelers to remove jackets, and that her choice was to remove the shirt or be sent to secondary for wanding. Naturally, she pointed out that nobody in OAK gave her a second look on Friday when she was wearing the same shirt.

I can understand why jackets must now be removed as osama is no doubt plotting new ways of sealing plastic explosives into coats (not that this would be detected by x-rays). No doubt the new policy is the result of the recent GAO or Inspector General reports on the TSA's incompetence. But it makes little sense to have a policy that is at best inconsistently enforced. Apparently they also need to provide TSA with a crash course on what constitutes a jacket.