[Cardhu]

Pistole’s action as an employee of the FBI is not germane to his responsibilities in the TSA., except insofar as now the entire population of the US are his ‘bad guys.`

He is now in a Policy and Public relations position and obviously he has failed disastrously in those endeavours.

I am sure he is good to his children and would help old ladies across the road - but that should be immaterial to a Senate Oversight hearing at the very moment went the county is in an uproar of terrifying 3 year olds, groping children and assaulting women.

Even if Sen. McCaskill refers to them as ‘love taps’ and is ‘wildly excited· at prospect of being electronically stripped. Of course after showing her Senate ID card to avoid such a situation.

[Girlene]

Pistole’s action as an employee of the FBI is not germane to his responsibilities in the TSA., except insofar as now the entire population of the US are his ‘bad guys.`

He is now in a Policy and Public relations position and obviously he has failed disastrously in those endeavours.

I agree he has failed. I was pointing out that he was lead or involved in investigations that showed TSA and other three letter organizations to be failures in preventing terrorist attacks. In the Undie-Bomber case, the failures of the intelligence community are far too many to list. For the Times Square attempted bombing, two days later, the FBI put the terrorist on a NO-Fly list a few hours before he was to fly out to Dubai, but he was still able to purchase a ticket and get on the plane.

As you said, the entire flying population of the US are now his "bad guys". Pistole is saying the intelligence community can't stop terrorism on planes. Only the TSA scans or gropes at the last checkpoint will do it. So now we are all criminals.

The ridiculous part of there approach is that their biggest ally (observant and courageous passengers) are being cowed and humiliated prior to getting on their flight.