TSA Security Chief Dismissed
 

:ohttp://wsbt.com/news/nation-world/he...-mismanagement

Reported on Fox News and confirmed. Kelly Hoggan removed for mismangement. Guess that $90k in bonuses will come in handy now.

The caption underneath the picture says that the House Oversight Committee removed him, which I suspect is incorrect. I don't think a congressional committee has the power to do this, although they could point out problems and make it very difficult for the agency to continue to employ someone in a top position after their hearings documented serious deficiencies.

Another take.

Also in the article is a statement saying a new leadership team has been put in place at ORD. Wonder if that means a new FSD?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/...longer-n579021

The NBC article seems to indicate that he wasn't "dismissed", but "reassigned to other duties".

Who did what and when does seem a bit confused. Seems clear that Hoggan is out as head of security. Other actions taken will filter out.

Really? Why Kelly Hoggan was fired? On what reason? Because of this, those passengers is complaining with TSA at nation airports. The lines is very long. Unacceptable! He gotta go now! Bye Bye!

Good riddance to Kelly Hoggan!!! :mad::mad:

<redacted by moderator> The Congress has no authority to hire & fire executive and judicial branch employees, except via the impeachment process for political appointees. Removal from office is the job of the Senate as a result of the trial on the articles of impeachment.

The only authority the House has is to extort an executive branch official by the threat of withholding funding. That's most likely what happened here <redacted by moderator>

The former head of FAMS is the new operations head at ORD. I have no idea if that position currently exists at all major airports or if this is an addition to the existing command structure.

FAMS has such a sterling reputation, a tight-knit, professional organization. It's clear that Neffy wants to put the nothing but the absolute best people on the problem. Not.

How in heavens name is a "National Incident Command Center" going to be able to quickly solve screening problems in different parts of the country?

ORD has 2 hour lines - is TSA going to be able to bring in screeners from some airport in Indiana on a minute's notice? If so, what happens to the lines at that airport in Indiana?

Yet another #TSAFail in the making.

Fox only said that Hoggan was replaced. Not sure were the rest of this was invented.

TSA seems focused on centralized control. Neffenger doesn't seem to trust or expect the FSD's to take correct actions in order to resolve local issues.

So now Neffenger has created more discontent within his organization. Wonderful.

The "National Incident Command Center" will probably come with spiffy new expensive patches for their uniforms. It will really be an adjunct to Ask TSA. In short, it will be another boondoggle with inflated pay rates that will take TSOs away from performing actual screening duties. If someone tweets a photo to AskTSA showing a 3-hour line and 1/3 of the TSOs in sight standing around, AskTSA will see the tweet (after an hour or four) and immediately tweet the airport in question to speed things up (ie, suspend the work slowdown for 30 minutes).

I have noticed that certain (most) responses on AskTSA to complaints about TSA misbehavior no longer refer the tweeter to the link for complaints (should be the OIG), now AskTSA says they will toss the complaint on behalf of the complainer. Wouldn't want anyone actually submitting a complaint, now would we?

Many do get a link to the OIG's complaint form. ;)

Neffenger is still covering for incompetent executives.

Removal of a senior SES Asst. Administrator just to get a different approach? A perfect reason why TSA should not be in the airport screening business.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...rity/84839202/