Originally Posted by
jkhuggins
- The potential for greater accountability. The difficulty of dismissing a federal employee for cause --- even without the presence of a union --- has been noted numerous times.
- The potential for fewer tangential investigative threads. The point has been made that TSOs, as federal employees, cannot simply "overlook" evidence of a federal crime being committed (e.g. drug smuggling), even if that crime has no direct bearing on air safety. I suspect that private employees would have no similar obligation.
- The potential for improved performance and/or costs, due to competition in the private sector to provide those services.
Yeah, privatization of military duties has worked smashingly well on all those points in Iraq.
