The TSA also sent me a letter denying a claim saying they only awarded claims when "the TSA was at fault." How an agent confiscating an allowed, legal item completely against the rules didn't constitute "at fault" for the TSA I do not know.
Their statement that "theft is not necessarily a breach in security" and the "even though we broke the rules, we didn't do anything wrong" they fed me stand right up there with "consistent inconsistency to confuse the terrorists" in terms of logic.