Posted on 07/18/2002 10:34:05 AM PDT by PJeffQ
Just on air.... news alert that Magaw resigned, replaced by deputy, former USCG commandant James Loy (sp?)....
White House Fires Head Of Transportation Security
By STEPHEN POWER, Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Thursday fired the head of the new federal agency set up to protect air travelers, amid an escalating series of conflicts between the fledgling agency and the airline industry.
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta asked for John Magaw's resignation Thursday morning, a senior Transportation Department official said.
"There was no precipitating event, just a series of questions about his management of the agency," the official said. "The phrase 'tin ear' would be appropriate.'"
Mr. Magaw couldn't be reached for comment Thursday.
In recent weeks, Mr. Magaw's agency has been under attack from airport directors who say they have been left out of decisions on how to meet a Dec. 31 deadline for deploying bomb-detection machines at their facilities, and from airline executives unhappy about random screening of passengers.
Succeeding Mr. Magaw at the Transportation Security Administration will be Adm. James Loy, who recently retired as commandant of the Coast Guard and was named deputy undersecretary for transportation security and chief operating officer of the TSA.
Mr. Magaw, a former Secret Service agent who protected President Bush's father, is considered close to the president and family. He was hospitalized earlier this year with heart trouble.
Mr. Magaw was a former head of the Secret Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. He spearheaded the Transportation Department's efforts to meet a Nov. 19 deadline for replacing private screeners at airport checkpoints with an all-federal work force, and a Dec. 31 deadline for inspecting all checked bags for explosives.
He also made the decision not to allow pilots to carry firearms. The House of Representatives last week voted to arm pilots.
Write to Stephen Power at stephen.power@wsj.com
Updated July 18, 2002 3:29 p.m. EDT
he’s received awards and citations as diverse as Seatrade Personality of the Year in London and the 2000 NAACP Meritorious Service Award, presented to him by Julian Bond, president of the organization’s national board of directors. The NAACP cited Loy for "championing equal opportunity, affirmative action, civil rights and public service in the Coast Guard."
In a forward to his article entitled “Meeting the Homeland Security Challenge,” he quotes Thomas Friedman of the New York Slimes.
Significant or not, I don’t know.
| About TSA |
| TSA Leadership |
On January 28, 2002, Congress confirmed the appointment of John W. Magaw as Under Secretary of Transportation for Security. His task is to implement the Aviation and Transportation Security Act of November 19, 2001. He and his organization, the Transportation Security Administration, are dedicated to elevate the current level of transportation security nationwide in all modes – air, land, water, and rail. |
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Uh, he appointed John Ashcroft AG. Ashcroft has asserted that the an individual right to own firearms is part of the Constitution.
Your gratuitous insults aside, you've given no evidence that GWB doesn't believe in the 2nd Amendment.
Instead, you bash his father.
You're a hoot!
There wasn't any evidence his father, other than some of his personnel moves, felt as he did until later in his presidency. IMHO, GWB's selection of Magaw in the first place, sent those paying attention a pretty solid early message.
Magaw didn't come up through the ATF but through the SS (Secret Service). He was head of Clinton's security detail, was elevated to SS chief (if I recall), and then was moved into ATF when a few marginally-culpable heads rolled after Waco. He then took charge of the cover-up/CYA operation and effectively protected the organisation from any consequences.
He was actually named ATF head as a reformer, but didn't reform anything. Similarly, his leadership of TSA has been a gravy train for old cronies. Tin ear doesn't half say it. The aviation press particular has been crucifying him (and he has deserved it). One of the first things he did was blow over $100k of the taxpayers' money on an audiophile sound system for his office. This is small as TSA waste goes, but it typifies the arrogance and snobbery that are now core Agency values.
One thing very typical of SS people is that they come to view Americans as existing in two classes: a Ruling/Master/Unchallengable class and a Ruled/Peasant-Serf/Threat class. This attitude has been imported into TSA wholesale. There are no good men in that org, and I think you will find that Loy is also one of Magaw's loyal Clintonistas, someone who sees ordinary Americans as bugs to be crushed.
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Criminal Number 18F
Mineta ... next?
It sent conspiracy kooks a solid message.
In your world, then, I guess Bush getting rid of Magaw now sends the message that he's pro-2nd amendment, huh?
You're seeing things that aren't there, but that happens a lot around here.
As far as conspiracies go, I'm of the opinion that the government isn't capable of keeping a secret and that Bush isn't bright enough.
If you'd like to believe that Bush, having known Magaw from his father's presidency, didn't know Magaw's views on the 2nd Amendment then I wish you the best in dreamland. My point, and it's only my opinion, is that Bush's support for the 2nd Amendment is based purely on political calculation. As such he'll do no more than he needs to do politically.
Last I checked, Mineta works for and at the pleasure of the President. If Bush disagrees, especially on policy as opposed to personnel issues (i.e. Magaw), Bush should either fire him, or at least tell him what the policy is to be, and to carry it out or resign.
"That’s why I’m for instant background checks at gun shows. I’m for trigger locks."
George W. Bush - Source: St. Louis debate Oct 17,2000.
Republicans - Mandatory Gun Show Background Check Act
MORE INJUSTICE ON THE WAY - Bush GUN CONTROL
"Gene Healy, a Cato Institute scholar, recently provided a thorough exploration of the unintended consequences of one law, the new Bush-Ashcroft plan to federalize gun crimes, known as the Project Safe Neighborhoods program. The unintended consequences of this law are frightening."
NOTE: Same Article in Washington Times.
"W. Wimps Out on Guns"
The Bush package includes several pet causes of the gun-control lobby, including $75 million for gun locks; $15.3 million for 113 new federal attorneys to serve as full-time gun prosecutors; and $19.1 million to expand a program by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms aimed at preventing youths from obtaining guns. Although Bush stressed that he simply wants to "enforce existing laws," the fine print of Project Safe echoes the gun-grabbing Left's call to ban the importation of high-capacity ammunition clips."
Project Safe Neighborhoods, A Closer Look
LAURA BUSH:
"During her San Diego speech, for instance, she said nothing about the school shooting that occurred 20 miles away in El Cajon the day before, although in a television interview she condemned it, adding that she thinks more gun control laws are needed.
"I think that's very important," she said when asked by CNN whether stronger gun laws are needed."
Source.
EMERSON & THE SECOND AMENDMENT
A Gutless Supreme Court Decision - Gun Control
The Supreme Court Will Never Safeguard Your Gun Rights
Gun Owners Group Takes Aim at Lott
Republican Leadership Help For Gun Control
RON PAUL: "PILOTS vs. BUREAUCRATS"
Bush Flying Blind on Armed Pilots Issue
Bush's Assault On Second Amendment
Living in Exile -- Federal prisons are filling up with people whose only crime is gun possession
NEA Resource Text Guide In Regards To The Extreme Right - Where Do Your Kids Go To School?
"The radical right says it is pro-life but it bitterly opposes gun control legislation"
Bush Signs His 26.5 Billion Education Bill
And then, of course, there's Senator Edward Kennedy. And the folks at the Crawford Coffee Shop would be somewhat shocked when I told them I actually like the fellow. He is a fabulous United States senator."
United States Thrown Off United Nations Human Rights Commission
Bush approves payment on back dues to United Nations
BUSH ADMINISTRATION OPPOSES RETALIATION AGAINST UNITED NATIONS
United Nations Day Proclamation {By the President of the United States of America}
Bush Caves on ICC Immunity Demand
The U.N. Is Coming For Your Guns
There's only two sides.
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