Yet again, another example of what is wrong with TSA. Bart clearly states that this is "what we do" at "my airport", but lots of FT's can attest to the fact that the exact opposite occurs at other airports.
For example, I travel through ORD and MCI twenty times or more each year.
The inspectors insist that travellers NOT WATCH their own bags being inspected -- it is not even as polite as "shooing" travellers away, but basically 'LEAVE NOW."
This is why the inconsistencies will not just drive us all crazy, but lead to confontations, because FT's can read policies on the TSA website, and then encounter something else at individual airports. It is a matter of some inspectors are simply rogue, arrogant imbeciles on a grand ego trip.