Homeland security chief reassigns top TSA official

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Monday he reassigned the acting administrator for the Transportation Security Administration after earlier ordering improved security at U.S. airports.

The moves follow media reports that checkpoint screeners failed to detect mock explosives and weapons in 95 percent of tests carried out by undercover agents.

Johnson said in a statement that Melvin Carraway would be reassigned to serve in the Office of State and Local Law Enforcement at Department of Homeland Security headquarters, while TSA Acting Deputy Director Mark Hatfield would lead the agency until a new acting administrator was appointed.

Airport screeners, who are employees of the TSA, did not detect banned weapons in 67 of 70 tests at dozens of airports, ABC News said, citing officials briefed on a report by Homeland Security's inspector general.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/homeland-security-chief-reassigns-top-tsa-official-020943827.html

[LibDemAlways]

1. If screening jobs were better paying and the job requirements

tougher, they might attract more competent help. The screening is only as good as the employees doing it.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. The MIC will be furious, at having to replace them.