Charlotte-Douglas is considering going private.
That will put a snit in their nickers.
G.W. Bush pushed along with the Democrats in creating this Frankenstein TSA monster.
GOP chairman: TSA was a ‘big mistake’
By Keith Laing - 03/18/15
House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) said Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should never have been created.
“I believe we made a big mistake in 2002 or 2003 when we set up the TSA,” he told reporters in a briefing at the Capitol.
“The Transportation committee... had experts from the British, the Germans, the Israelis all come testify before the committee and overwhelmingly they told us don’t set up a federal [agency].”
The TSA was set up by Congress in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The agency has become a lightning rod in the years since, a punching bag for Republicans who complain its workforce has grown too large and its security techniques invade passengers’ privacy. Republicans, though, controlled Congress when the TSA was created.
Shuster said Wednesday it would have better in hindsight if lawmakers left the job of securing the nation’s airports to private security companies.
“Have federal regulators looking, but allow the private sector to do the work,” he said.
The TSA has been moved into the Department of Homeland Security, so it now falls outside of the House Transportation Committee’s jurisdiction.
Shuster noted that it has taken other nations with federal agencies responsible for airport security decades to reduce their scope.
http://thehill.com/policy/transportation/236130-gop-rep-creating-tsa-was-a-mistake