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Old Aug 8, 2009, 5:32 pm
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Wally Bird
 
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It doesn’t call for a military solution.
Certainly not in the nations' airports; it doesn't even call for a military approach.

His lack of military experience is Good Thing but the LE background does concern me. He may have a better grasp of law, civil rights and the limits of powers; or he may not care and support, defend or expand the abuse of the 4th Amendment.

Like others have written, what's probably going to happen is... nothing. He has no Washington experience and is unlikely to have encountered the kind of mendacious mandarins who infest the TSA. I don't know what the administrator's duties are, but I don't think it's much of a policy position and anyway there are multiple levels between him and the workers to obstruct or obfuscate any changes.

Still if he's just a titular mouthpiece at least he seems more lucid than Hawley; which isn't saying much, really.

We'll see.
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