Hawley Doesn't Want to Screen Cargo
Jan 18, 2007, 9:06 am
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Hawley Doesn't Want to Screen Cargo
From USA Today:
"In his first public comments on a bill approved by the House Jan. 9, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief Kip Hawley said inspecting all passenger-plane cargo would add "a very small, incremental benefit for security."
Hawley said it also could divert airport screeners from other activities such as screening airport employees, inspecting passenger travel documents and looking for suspicious travelers."
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...security_x.htm
"In his first public comments on a bill approved by the House Jan. 9, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief Kip Hawley said inspecting all passenger-plane cargo would add "a very small, incremental benefit for security."
Hawley said it also could divert airport screeners from other activities such as screening airport employees, inspecting passenger travel documents and looking for suspicious travelers."
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...security_x.htm
Jan 18, 2007, 9:25 am
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Jan 18, 2007, 9:27 am
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Of course not.
It's hard to harass cargo, and that is all Comrade Hawley knows how to do.
Plus, screening cargo involves the effective use of techology and that's not his strong suit, either.
Idiot Boy thinks the x-ray detects explosives. What will he use to screen cargo? An Etch-a-Sketch?
It's hard to harass cargo, and that is all Comrade Hawley knows how to do.
Plus, screening cargo involves the effective use of techology and that's not his strong suit, either.
Idiot Boy thinks the x-ray detects explosives. What will he use to screen cargo? An Etch-a-Sketch?
Jan 18, 2007, 9:29 am
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What a complete idiot. He really doesn't get it. How can someone like this be in this position? He is actually saying this nonsense with a straight face?
This is the third thread this morning that sent my blood pressure on a mileage run.
This is the third thread this morning that sent my blood pressure on a mileage run.
Jan 18, 2007, 10:01 am
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There is no public relations benefit to screening cargo. Therefore he is concerned that Congress won't allocate the funds, because it would expose the entire "security" concern as an inappropriate cost/benefit allocation.
Jan 18, 2007, 10:34 am
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From USA Today:
"In his first public comments on a bill approved by the House Jan. 9, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief Kip Hawley said inspecting all passenger-plane cargo would add "a very small, incremental benefit for security."
Hawley said it also could divert airport screeners from other activities such as screening airport employees, inspecting passenger travel documents and looking for suspicious travelers."
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...security_x.htm
"In his first public comments on a bill approved by the House Jan. 9, Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief Kip Hawley said inspecting all passenger-plane cargo would add "a very small, incremental benefit for security."
Hawley said it also could divert airport screeners from other activities such as screening airport employees, inspecting passenger travel documents and looking for suspicious travelers."
Link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...security_x.htm
WHY IS THIS MAN EMPLOYED?????!?
Jan 18, 2007, 10:37 am
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This is inexcuseable. Hawley, if he were even a good bureaucrat, would us ethis an an excuse to get MORE FUNDING. He's not even smart enogh to be a decent bureaucrat.
I wonder what Commrade Hawley would do if confronted with a cargo shipment of shampoo??
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Jan 18, 2007, 11:32 am
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Jan 18, 2007, 11:36 am
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Jan 18, 2007, 12:21 pm
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Testimony Transcript
Better read it on an empty stomach...
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/_f...ofMrHawley.pdf
The entire transcript hasn't been posted yet, and I'm not sure if it will be archived. Questions for the record should be posted in about a month and then the VIllage Idiot will have about 30 days to answer them. This Congress will be a lot harder to blow off than the last one.
http://commerce.senate.gov/public/_f...ofMrHawley.pdf
The entire transcript hasn't been posted yet, and I'm not sure if it will be archived. Questions for the record should be posted in about a month and then the VIllage Idiot will have about 30 days to answer them. This Congress will be a lot harder to blow off than the last one.
Jan 18, 2007, 12:51 pm
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I think you're absolutely right. It's all a dog-and-pony show for the Kettles who fly once-a-year and think "anything for safety" is the way to go. They don't see cargo inspections (and don't have cargo to be harassed about), so there's no visible "benefit" in performing them.
If ever proof of the pointlessness of airport security was needed, this is. You can bring an atomic bomb on an airplane if you want -- just ship it as cargo.
Jan 18, 2007, 1:01 pm
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How could someone like this not be in this position?
It's a job that was created solely for power over others, giving stolen money to the person so amoral (and/or unthinking, lazy, greedy, etc.) he would choose to accept it.
A generally decent person wouldn't stay one extra day as head of the TSA. The Kip Hawleys of the world certainly would though.
It's a job that was created solely for power over others, giving stolen money to the person so amoral (and/or unthinking, lazy, greedy, etc.) he would choose to accept it.
A generally decent person wouldn't stay one extra day as head of the TSA. The Kip Hawleys of the world certainly would though.