US House 'Creator' of TSA Wants To Kill It

Posted by OverTheGeicoE on Thursday September 15, 2011 @07:41AM from the seemed-like-a-good-idea-at-the-time dept.

U.S. Representative John Mica (R-Florida), the sponsor of the original House bill that helped create the TSA, has become an outspoken opponent of the agency. In a recent interview, "Mica said screeners should be privatized and the agency dismantled." Mica seems to agree with other TSA critics that the agency 'failed to actually detect any threat in 10 years.' Mica is the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman and receives classified briefings on TSA. Perhaps we should trust him more than most people on this topic. In an older ABC news article (ignore the unrelated video) Mica describes how he deals with security checkpoints. "He won't go through a full body scanner at an airport because 'I don't want them circulating pictures of my beautiful body' all over. He said he opts for a pat-down, and just 'closes his eyes and imagines a beautiful female.'"

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Re:I can solve the problem for half the population by Moryath · 2011-09-15 09:48 · Score: 1, Troll

Hire the Israelis to do security RIGHT. Run it like they do on El Al.
You'll have the drunken rightwing retards from the Republican party begging for the TSA back in no time.