It's been coolly and calmly calculated. It is no different in any way from strip searching grandmothers at the airport while letting the sleeper terrorist through with a cursory glance. There are two problems, no concept of relative risk (or grasp of science for that matter) and political correctness. The latter is only going to get worse as Holder or Holder II threatens to sue local authorities for profiling Liberians.
Exactly. I am a grandmother, and I am frisked about 50% of the time when I fly. At 5'3 and 130 pounds, I must look really dangerous.