Monday, September 12, 2011

TSA Creator Says Dismantle, Privatize the Agency



They’ve been accused of rampant thievery, spending billions of dollars like drunken sailors, groping children and little old ladies, and making everyone take off their shoes.

But the real job of the tens of thousands of screeners at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is to protect Americans from a terrorist attack.

Yet a decade after the TSA was created following the September 11 attacks, the author of the legislation that established the massive agency grades its performance at “D-.”

“The whole program has been hijacked by bureaucrats,” said Rep. John Mica (R. -Fla.), chairman of the House Transportation Committee.

“It mushroomed into an army,” Mica said. “It’s gone from a couple-billion-dollar enterprise to close to $9 billion.”

As for keeping the American public safe, Mica says, “They’ve failed to actually detect any threat in 10 years.”

“Everything they have done has been reactive. They take shoes off because of [shoe-bomber] Richard Reid, passengers are patted down because of the diaper bomber, and you can’t pack liquids because the British uncovered a plot using liquids,” Mica said.

4 comments:

  1. Eliminate TSA. Eliminate DHS. Revoke the Patriot Act. We will take care of ourselves.

    This article in today's Waterloo Courier is interesting. After 9-11 "boys all over the country got toys" and now the funding is drying up. "How will we replace the funding"? Hopefully we won't.

    http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/homeland-security-funds-for-iowa-a-big-question-mark/article_b46861d6-5f10-5218-8b3d-e8f602ccaec1.html

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  2. Hopefully we won't.

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