A hearing scheduled for Thursday by the Subcommittee on Aviation,which is a part of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (TIC),had an open invitation to agency head John Pistole to attend to discuss how best to improve our nation’s airport passenger security system through common sense solutions. Pistole refused the invitation claiming that the Congressional Committee has “no jurisdiction of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).”
According to a brief titled How best to improve our nation’s airport passenger security system through common sense solutions,submitted by Subcommittee Chairman Thomas Petri (R-WI):
The purpose of this hearing is to examine the impact that the regulations and policies of the Transportation Security Administration have on aviation passenger experience and the free flow of aviation commerce. The subcommittee will hear from government,industry,and labor witnesses on their observations and suggestions on TSA’s policies.
While Pistole was invited to attend,he is declining and issued a statement via the TSA website:
By U.S. House of Representatives rules which state that the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee has no jurisdiction over the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),no representative from TSA will be present at the Subcommittee on Aviation hearing scheduled for Nov. 29.
TSA will continue to work with its committees of jurisdiction to pursue effective and efficient security solutions. In the 112th Congress alone,TSA witnesses have testified at 38 hearings and provided 425 briefings for Members of Congress.
TSA also continues to work to enhance security screening measures and to improve the passenger experience including through the expansion of TSA Pre✓™. As part of its risk-based security initiatives,TSA has modified screening procedures for passengers 12 and under and 75 and older while pursuing a multi-layered approach to security that includes behavior detection officers,explosives-detection systems and federal air marshals,among other measures both seen and unseen.
TIC’s own website cites numerous areas of reform that are needed concerning the TSA. They list the following:
TSA Waste in Procuring,Deploying and Storing Screening Equipment and Technology
Passenger Screening Reform — Private-Federal Screening Model Is More Efficient &Cost-Effective,and Could Save Taxpayers $1 Billion
A Decade of Costly TSA Missteps
TSA Wastes Over $200 Million Every Year on Flawed Behavior Detection Program
TSA Has Failed to Approve Biometric Technology for Pilots or Port Workers
Read More at freedomoutpost.com . By Tim Brown.
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Let's see:They already fondle just about any age and either sex (control through intimidation),force passengers through x-ray machines (Agenda 21 population reduction?),and steal electronics –one TSA agent was recently caught with $800,000 of stolen electronics (erosion of property rights).
If they answer to no one,what will they do next? Will they be pulling wedding rings off? Will they force people to take off clothing that they want for themselves? Would they dare go so far as to practice "droit du seigneur"…picking young girls to be taken to a room for …well,you get the drift …? (Heck,maybe young boys,too.)
And,TSA,has it occurred to you that excusing people under and over certain ages will just get you terrorists who are in those excused age groups? Do you watch any news? Have you not seen that Muslims use children for terrorist acts?
Folks,they aren't trying to stop terrorism;they are teaching you to be submissive to ALL POWERFUL GOVERNMENT,so that you will go with them to a FEMA camp with no more than a whimper.