Actually it would be better to let them take the laptops. You do realize these are seminars attended by former burger flippers now working for the TSA. Do you really think they feed important info to that bunch? With all the secured federal office space in Philadelphia, do you really think booking seminars in Hotels is wise? Of course not! The Federal Royalty does not even want these people smelling up their hallways.
They should plant millions of false and inacurate data files in federal employees laptops. When stolen (or abandoned in a hotel or cab) the data stolen will serve national security just fine. TSA employees don't even know a laptop from an ATM. I'm sure a laptop giving a power point presentation on how to search granny and other high risk passengers to a room full of people who work for the TSA holds very little in the way of much more than porn files, chat room trails, and endless solitare games.
I was thinking .. maybe they said there was info on the computer just so they could find a link to some "bigger fish" who want that info.