When Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that Major General Robert Harding was President Obama’s latest nominee for the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), she said, “Mr. Harding has the experience and perspective [emphasis added] to make a real difference in carrying out the mission of the agency. If there was ever a nominee that warranted expedited…consideration in the Senate, this is it.” The responsibility of the TSA is security for all modes of transportation, but its primary focus, as every citizen who has flown on a commercial aircraft knows, is airport security. Specifically, “airport security” and “the prevention of aircraft...
