These rules would mean something if they bothered to train their screeners. Just this week I got conflicting direction about iPads, and that was at Chicago O'Hare and Detroit Metro, two busy airports.
It seems that nobody worries about phones and kindles, and anything that is laptop-sized has to come out. The iPad seems to be the point where the confusion starts.
Considering how popular the iPad is, it would be nice if there was a consistent, definitive answer.
Yes. I've got a so-called "TSA-friendly" laptop bag that supposedly allows the computer to go through the machine without taking it out. It turned out to be a 50-50 proposition as to whether it went through with no problem or whether I got yelled at for not the computer out, so I started just taking it out. Irritating.
I'm pretty sure their "the need may arise to take a closer look" language exists solely to cover the fact that most of their agents are so poorly trained that they don't know and can't be bothered to worry about consistent definitive answers.
It seems that nobody worries about phones and kindles, and anything that is laptop-sized has to come out. The iPad seems to be the point where the confusion starts.
Considering how popular the iPad is, it would be nice if there was a consistent, definitive answer.