TSA Appoints Another Zero-Experience FSD
Mar 16, 2006 | 5:19 pm
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TSA Appoints Another Zero-Experience FSD
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Politicians: Nail Files, No! Incompetent Management, That's OK.
"Forget the memos to Chertoff and Hawley. Professionally and ethically, they're both illiterates when it comes to understanding security. The latest example comes to us from Newark, one of the terrorists' 9/11 hijack choices.
It seems the Federal Security Director there has been finally moved out. This is the same FSD that received a $20,000 bonus in 2004 right on the heels of a scathing report that essentially determined the guy couldn't properly manage a yard sale, let alone a security operation. (The office of Senator Lautenberg, D-NJ, defended the bonus, stating that the man had "worked hard," or something to that effect. Great leadership.)
As a replacement, as we predicted a few months ago, the TSA has proudly put Mark Hatfield in the job. Remember, Hatfield was originally put in the Deputy FSD position at EWR, fresh off his heroic efforts as the PR flack for the TSA. He has absolutely no - zero - security background or training. As we reported, however, he was the advance PR man for a Beach Boys tour in the 1980s. Now, he's bringing this wealth of experience to bear in fighting terrorism at Newark International."
Truer words were never spoken.
While I posted this story last week about Newark's new Balloonhead FSD, this article, like so many other articles about the TSA, is spot-on.
Politicians: Nail Files, No! Incompetent Management, That's OK.
"Forget the memos to Chertoff and Hawley. Professionally and ethically, they're both illiterates when it comes to understanding security. The latest example comes to us from Newark, one of the terrorists' 9/11 hijack choices.
It seems the Federal Security Director there has been finally moved out. This is the same FSD that received a $20,000 bonus in 2004 right on the heels of a scathing report that essentially determined the guy couldn't properly manage a yard sale, let alone a security operation. (The office of Senator Lautenberg, D-NJ, defended the bonus, stating that the man had "worked hard," or something to that effect. Great leadership.)
As a replacement, as we predicted a few months ago, the TSA has proudly put Mark Hatfield in the job. Remember, Hatfield was originally put in the Deputy FSD position at EWR, fresh off his heroic efforts as the PR flack for the TSA. He has absolutely no - zero - security background or training. As we reported, however, he was the advance PR man for a Beach Boys tour in the 1980s. Now, he's bringing this wealth of experience to bear in fighting terrorism at Newark International."
Truer words were never spoken.
While I posted this story last week about Newark's new Balloonhead FSD, this article, like so many other articles about the TSA, is spot-on.
