Opt-out day, a protest against the TSA's full-body scanners and more intensive pat-downs planned for the busiest 24 hours of Thanksgiving travel, came and went.
He calls the TSA's best-known processes "security theater" but said there's no political will to eliminate it.
And at 1.8 fluid ounces, the whole thing comes in well under the TSA's carry-on liquid restrictions.
Under the TSA's risk-based security, Pistole has sought to "reduce the haystack, " giving modified screening to travelers under age 12 and over age 75.
In fact, the TSA's own rules--and a few ways of creatively applying them--can get you through an airport's checkpoint with the least invasive probing possible, of either the electronic or manual variety.
The outrage spawned a social media-fed genre of viral videos and stories about poorly handled TSA scans -- like Savannah Barry's -- and grope-y pat-downs.
The TSA's idea of a pat-down has become significantly more intensive since its new rules were implemented in November.
Traveler Emma Siemasko, a writer and blogger in Boston, sees "the flip-floppiness" of the TSA's policies as the real problem.
The TSA's moves toward a risk-based approach to security have the support of Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
It's the same kind of trade-off TSA implicitly provided when it ordered us to take off our sneakers (to stop shoe bombs) and to chuck our water bottles (to prevent liquid explosives).
They include the Flight Attendants Union Coalition, a nearly 90, 000-member group that has launched a campaign to reverse the TSA's decision.
In the U.S., the TSA uses both types of scanners: 250 X-ray scanners and 264 millimeter wave scanners.
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Start by planning ahead, says Ben Edelman, a security-focused law professor at Harvard Business School and a frequent critic of the TSA's new practices.
But Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Virginia, wrote TSA Acting Administrator Gail Rossides saying her agency has undermined the airport's efforts to ensure traveler safety.
That also means it's pretty useless if you only want to schlep one bag around, so it looks like we're stuck with the Bucket Dance for now -- hey TSA, would pockets on the sides be such a threat to our nation's security?
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Former flight attendant Tiffany Hawk is "stupefied" by the TSA's decision to allow knives "especially since the process that turns checkpoints into maddening logjams -- removing shoes, liquids and computers -- remains unchanged, " she wrote in an opinion column for CNN.
Worried that the TSA would confiscate her cremated remains from my carry-on, I packed the urn containing my mother's ashes into a suitcase filled with gifts for my Chinese relatives and entrusted the lot to United Airlines.
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The mood toward the TSA isn't good, but it was worse in late 2010, when the TSA began to deploy full-body scanners and pat-downs in airports, said National Geographic Traveler's ombudsman and consumer advocate, Christopher Elliott.
But it applauded the TSA's efforts to harmonize U.S. rules with those overseas, and its embrace of risk-based security.
Mr. Pistole, an FBI veteran who took over TSA in 2010, said that by studying frequent-flier histories as well as conducting background checks, he's confident the U.S. now has the technology and the intelligence information to make less-rigorous, faster screening work.
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