Sonia Pitt
Posted on 08/09/2008 8:29:58 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
The curious case of Sonia Pitt has officials in Washington asking whether the Department of Homeland Security's hiring practices are inept..........
One week after ousting disgraced Minnesota transportation official Sonia Pitt from the job she found at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the massive federal agency has taken a new step to beef up its vetting of potential hires.
From now on, more job candidates will have their backgrounds searched on Google.
The policy change, put forth by Kip Hawley, the top administrator of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration, is one among several signs that TSA's admitted blunder in hiring Pitt on the heels of her scandalous firing from the Minnesota Department of Transportation has become a serious issue in Washington.
The incident is raising fresh questions about the effectiveness of Homeland Security, which has been dogged by recurring questions of competency since it was created in the spring of 2003 to protect the country from a repeat of sophisticated terrorist attacks.
Members of Congress and a watchdog group say they are alarmed by the hiring of Pitt, who had been fired in November from her executive-level emergency response job at MnDOT.
(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...
They didn’t bother even trying to be an effective agency at Homeland Security. They just went straight to bureaucratic cesspool.
And now they are going to do in depth vetting of potential hires by doing a Google search......
UNNGGHHHH.....
Kewl!
The same google that scrubbed itself clean of a half million images of the alleged Barak Obama birth certificate a couple weeks ago?
That google?
The one and only......
I feel more secure already!
I’m glad somebody does!!
All I know is that I can’t WAIT to drive over that new 35W bridge with its underhanded bidding and race-to-the-finish construction. Wheeeeee!!!
A Minnesota emergency manager who was fired after taking an out-of-state trip in the aftermath of last year’s bridge collapse is now working for the federal Transportation Security Administration.
Sonia Pitt, 44, is a security specialist for the agency in Arlington, Va.
Sonia Pitt
Never on the old one, I’ll never be on this one.
There’s nothing in that part of town for me.
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