Posted on 05/24/2016 3:45:29 AM PDT by BiggerTigger
The head of security for TSA, Kelly Hoggan, has been removed from his position after a hearing about the agency's management, the House Oversight Committee says.
In an email obtained from the TSA, Administrator Peter Neffenger announced a series of leadership changes on Monday. The position that Hoggan had held since 2013 will temporarily be taken by Darby LaJoye, who is currently deputy assistant administrator.
The changes come as fliers complain about long, slow airport screening lines. That problem "has many parts," as NPR's Brian Naylor has reported: More people are traveling, and there are fewer screeners.
The May 12 hearing looked into attrition as well as management accountability. The committee says Hoggan received more than $90,000 in bonuses between November 2013 and November 2014, "despite significant security vulnerabilities." Lawmakers accused TSA of surreptitiously giving the payments in $10,000 increments, NBC News reports.
NBC adds that during the hearing, Administrator Neffenger said that he did not think the "level of bonus is justified," but that he didn't have plans to fire Hoggan.
Here's more from the Two-Way on what TSA plans to work on going forward:
"Congress gave the TSA authority to hire more than 700 new screeners, who are expected by mid-June, and the agency is redeploying others. It will also be making additional use of canine teams to help screen passengers, as well as stepping up marketing of the TSA Pre-Check program, which allows passengers who undergo a background check and pay $85 to go through expedited screening." In Monday's email, Neffenger said he had put in place a new leadership team at Chicago O'Hare International, infamous for travel delays, and said he had appointed Rod Allison, director of the Federal Air Marshal Service, as the deputy chief of operations.
LaJoye, taking Hoggan's position "effective immediately," has worked as federal security director at Los Angeles International Airport and John F. Kennedy Airport in New York.
Trump may not have much to do when he takes office—and I suspect this is a part of the "October Surprise".
Problem: Government fails miserably.
Solution: Add more government.
Insanity reigns.
Need coffee
Read : they removed his head
Little drastic. Lol
lol...because its the governments money!!!...you've given it up freely, so they pass it out freely....
I hate the TSA and haven’t been in an airport for more than ten years because of them, but this is a work-slowdown orchestrated by union thugs wanting to unionize the TSA so they can send union dues to Democrat candidates.
This particular apparatchik has nothing to do with that.
You can remove the top dog, but there are thousands more (liberats) waiting in the wings to do exactly the same crap to the U.S. citizenry. The are self-grown and promote from within.
This criminal should give the stolen $90K “bonuses” back. What is wrong with these incompetent, loser Fed employees?
He should have used the Disney analogy. Nobody’s concerned about the wait time there. And if you miss the ride, so what? Another one will leave a few minutes later.
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