WH to Name Deputy F.B.I. Director as T.S.A. Chief

[Casino67]

NYT's The Caucus:



The White House plans to nominate John S. Pistole, currently the deputy director of the F.B.I., to be the new head of the Transportation Security Administration, officials said Monday.

Mr. Pistole’s name was to be submitted to the Senate as early as Monday after two earlier attempts to fill the job responsible for securing the nation’s airports and other transit systems were unsuccessful. The T.S.A. job is an increasingly high profile post given the Christmas Day bombing attempt and the focus on the no-fly list.

Officials say Mr. Pistole, deputy director of the agency since 2004, has a strong reputation and credibility with lawmakers in both parties. He has been with the F.B.I since joining as a special agent in Minneapolis in 1983 and also worked in the counterterrorism area, in addition to holding the deputy director’s job. He was recently involved in the investigation into the Times Square bombing attempt.

The T.S.A. position has been vacant since the previous director resigned at the end of the Bush administration. Two previous Obama administration nominations for the job were withdrawn when they ran into confirmation problems. The latest was Maj. Gen. Robert A. Harding, who withdrew in March.

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[Argyle58]

I don't know.....he was a co-author of the memorandum that limited the FBI's scope of conducting, participating in, or having knowledge of coercive interrogations of terrorist suspects (notice that the word "torture" is not used).

 

I don't know if he is a good candidate for the job, or not, but he will almost assuredly be confirmed.

 

At least he has a law enforcement background, instead of being a union hack.