It's also a part of the media's campaign to lull us into a sense of false security that the administration is paranoid and harming people's personal liberties.
After all, we "haven't been attacked" since 9.11.2001.
The DC sniper killings, the anthrax mailings, the Tampa teen kamikaze, the LAX counter shooting, et al were just "lone nut" occurances. It's not like they were Islamofascists doing their duty.
People need to wake up that we have been attacked on US soil since 9.11. Who knows what wasn't reported in the press (even the snipers killed before going to the DC area).
The media likes to deny the obvious.
I was on a Baltimore to Orlando flight when the then-new TSA was conducting "randonly chosen" special "final searches" before you were allowed to board the aricraft.
All coach Boeing 737: 137 pax, of all races, colors, ages, sexes, etc. (you get a rather eclectic crowd going to Disney.....)
137 passengers. 17 passengers searched. 17 middle aged Caucasion males.
Our gmvt at work.