Originally Posted by
WillCAD
Despite the abysmal nature of this report, I must admit that I'm surprised to see Melvin get the sack. He was only the interim administrator and he'd only been in the job for six months. Even I can't put the blame for this on him - the agency has been a joke from the start, and got progressively worse under each administrator, especially Pistole. I don't recall hearing of any major shifts in policy or procedure under Melvin that could possibly lead to more than a sliver of blame being legitimately placed on him.
And the new guy is a propaganda professional with no security experience. I suppose it might be a step up to have an interim administrator who hasn't had his entire professional career shaped by the search for terr'ists and crinimals, but going to a mini-Goebbels can't be any more than a marginal improvement.
+1
Melvin was only a stand-in placeholder anyway, but I don't see that he deserves the sack for what was going on long before he took over.
I think it's very telling that the new appointee has no security background. Presumably we won't count his abject and on-going performance failures at EWR against him.
He isn't being hired for security experience or to bring new ideas to the agency. He's being hired for his (perceived) public relations abilities.
Don't worry about making TSA function better. Just make it
appear to work better.