Posted on 06/02/2015 1:03:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Acting director Melvin Carraway replaced 'effective immediately'
The TSA's acting director has been replaced by the acting deputy after an embarrassing report showed TSA agents failed 95% of tests in which fake explosives and weapons were smuggled through security. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says Mark Hatfield will replace Melvin Carraway until the Senate can confirm President Obama's nomination of Coast Guard Vice Adm. Peter Neffenger as the agency's next administrator, which he hopes can be done "as quickly [as] possible," reports the New York Times. Carraway—who only became acting director in January, Politico notes—will move to Homeland Security's Office for State and Local Law Enforcement "effective immediately," Johnson says, per ABC News.
Johnson, who thanked Carraway for his 11 years of service at the TSA, has called on the agency to retrain airport agents and supervisory personnel, retest screening equipment, and boost the number of covert tests in airports. "The numbers in these reports never look good out of context, but they are a critical element in the continual evolution of our aviation security," he says, per Reuters. "We take these findings very seriously in our continued effort to test, measure, and enhance our capabilities and techniques as threats evolve." Johnson says he will meet with companies who manufacture airport security equipment and will be given biweekly updates from officials supervising new security standards.
A dept which should be done away with and let it go back to private security firms. That would save the tax payer a lot of money and waste.
After 9/11 airport security was a patchwork-quilt of various groups. The Bush administration wanted to centralize security, but the DemocRATs in Congress insisted that they become Federal employees. Bush capitulated. The result? TSA.
Maybe they’ll move him to the IRS, or better yet, DOD
Saul Alinsky tactics appoint the MOST INCOMPETENT to ALL Positions everywhere always..
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Well, it definitely starts at the top.
When the #1 BO rule is no one in the organization smarter than him...
For proof I offer Biden, Kerry, Clinton, just for starters one can add their own....
Back in ‘01-’02 the Dems demanded the screening agents be federal employees, and we had to have certain quotas (ender/race/ethnicity) fulfilled. Should this result surprise?
(T)heatrics, (S)luggishness, (A)pathy...
At least, that’s what is demonstrated by the TSA in Atlanta on a consistent basis.
Shoe Bomber: Missed by TSA; Stopped by passengers & cabin crew
Underwear Bomber: Missed by TSA; Stopped by passengers & cabin crew
Various idiots/drnks/nut-cases: Stopped by passengers & cabin crew, perhaps a few air marshalls...
They should write a law that makes it legal and provides some sort of award for stopping/thwarting a terrorist(s) in-flight and conceals your identity. If three or more passengers agree and/or if cabin crew asks for assistance, you are held harmless if you have to thump some idiot — not sure of the details but something along those lines. I’ll leave the legislative sausage-making to those smarter than me.
You do get an 'award'. You live.
No one is under any illusions. A terrorist seizes control of the aircraft, you're going to die.
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