Don't know if the TSA has this in mind but...

My office is now hiring new employees as "interns" so as to be able to extend the probationary period to 2 years and reduce the "intern's" civil service protections during said period.

There is a problem though because there is some sort of rule against 2 year GS-11 (where most of us start) "interns"

It's a pretty sleazy way around the 1 year probationary period.