Airport chief steamed over security New, stricter federal mandates hurt RDU and patrons, he says. By VICKI HYMAN, Staff Writer The typically mild-mannered director of Raleigh-Durham International Airport called federal security regulators "dictatorial" and threatened a "showdown" Thursday after they frustrated his attempts to add an extra lane at a terminal checkpoint. "If I wind up in jail one day," director John Brantley told Airport Authority members, "it's not because I wasn't trying to help our customers." Brantley also revealed that a recent clash with a federal security representative over access to the airfield nearly led the Federal Aviation Administration...